Hmmm, that does seem to severly limit the number of tabs you can have open at once as well as take a pretty big chunk of screen realestate compared to traditional tabs.
I found Snow Crash to be very enjoyable, though somewhat *risque*(pornographic?) at certain points. Overall it reminded me of Tad William's Otherland series, which I sadly have yet to finish...
I want to say that of reviews I often read, I find the slashdot ones the most relevant and useful.
It might because it's written by someone with a similar computer geek background, or maybe because it is less professional and more like what a friend would tell me about a book. The fully polished reviews of magazines are more like analytical or critical english 101 essays from my point of view than the slashdot ones.
To each their own, but I find that a short review does nothing for me - I too can read the back of the book. These longer reviews are quite helpful, assuming that the reviewer manages to keep most of the plot to themselves, and I think this reviewer manages that quite well.
Well, one thing that is taught in all the review books etc for the standardized tests like SAT or GMAT in the math areas are stratigies.
Basically the idea is to figure out a way to quickly (say in 5 seconds) look at a complex formula or math problem and estimate the answer so you get close enough to pick the right one out of 5 choices.
I'm not good at this as I've always worked out problems, and am struggling to remember and use the various tricks to very quickly answer the questions for my upcoming GMAT.
Of course, this really is only useful if you have some question with 5 possible answers given. Which most likely will never happen in real life.
Well, proxomitron with the latest Gryphen filters blocks all the ads mentioned so far...
You might want to look into proximodo, an opensource proxomitron clone that will compile on linux. It's in alpha right now though, so check back in a while.
Jesus, now everything is stealing. So if I go to the bathroom during a commercial, I'm stealing TV?
What about ignoring a billboard along a road so I can watch traffic. Am I stealing the road or some shit?
If I only read the articles in Playboy, am I stealing the models - oh wait, messed up the logic there.
No, the logic is messed up anyway. They put the data out there. I am not forced to look at their data. I can choose to read what data I want. Ergo, I choose not to read the ads. How the fuck is this stealing?
If they want me to read the ads, then make it mandatory, a la Salon. Or require subscriptions. I know I would view less websites that way, and you'd have to offer something amazing or at least pretty good for me to pay for it, but you's be assured someones money.
Well, the big filtersets for proxomitron do this, so it probably would be a good idea.
Check out JD5000 sets with Fake ad clicks filter for ideas about how they implemented it.
Wouldn't it make more sense to... oh I don't know.. throw a dialog box error and offer to make a new PST file rather than corrupting data to make the point?
I don't find this relegated to outsourced tech support. It's just that tech support seems to be an afterthought for most companies.
The thing that pisses me off the most is that the only reason I call tech support is because I need to talk to someone who knows more about the product than I do. For the past few years, I feel like I could save time by asking my computer illeterate local gas station attendent for help and get the same service.
As someone currently near finishing their BS and planning on going on to get a MBA or MIS (depending on how applications go), I have to ask...
Would you consider a person applying for a job out of High School a better candidate than someone out of College? Assuming of course the experiance is equivelent (none).
Because it seems like you are implying that College isn't worth much, so that would mean the ideal candidate would logically needed to get a job out of High School and likely wouldn't have had experiance at that point (at some point in each persons life, they MUST get a job lacking work experiance).
So that makes me think that many of the people in this thread prefer hiring High School graduates vs college graduates.
Well, the lab is isolated pretty well from anything important. The instructor basically doesn't want to update all the slides, find a new text book etc...
I'll suggest trying to find the rpm of firefox the next time we have class (thanksgiving break and all).
The big "power user" syndrome seems to be that we are pretty used to the windows way - which isn't a valid argument against something I know.
This may be related to this, but I always find online based systems far less reliable than something I can run without the net(and as I understand these systems - such as YaST2 in SuSE 9.1 Pro(the latest linux I've used) require the net).
In windows, I can take the installer for Opera, my firewall of choice, my word processor, my games, etc... and burn the downloaded installers on a CD to install again if I have to reformat or whatever. I have no idea how I would do that if I installed all my software from, say, YaST. It seems I would have to re-download everything.
The other thing I dislike is the fact that on Windows, the day a new Opera version comes out(for instance) I can upgrade, but with SuSE, I had to wait a few days to a week to upgrade - that was unnecessary time vunerable to the security issue patched in the new version!
Well, I don't know what "mere mortals" you know, but in my college 471 network lab class we are using RedHat 7.3 (IDK Why, the school refuses to upgrade).
One of my classmates has spent the entire semester till now trying to install FireFox with no success. Everyone else is stuck using Mozilla 0.9 that came with it as we cannot seem to install any software not specially prepared by the instructor.
These are Computer Information System majors, who have taken programming classes, data communication classes, and have done projects with various software to get to a high 400 level class. We cannot get software to install on linux reliably.
I somehow got the Opera 7.54 install to work, I really don't know why it did work, but it did. I've told him to use the same gnomerpm program with FF but it doesn't work. And why do I need a program to install a program? It just doesn't make any sense.
Actually, the college I go to has a failing grade of E, simply to differentiate between failing a class you take for a grade, and failing a class you take Pass/Fail.
What about the systems that have two passwords, one with "dummy data" or misleading data or whatever, and one that shows the real info?
The problem with torture is that well, depending on the circumstances, how can you ever know if you actually are getting correct data, planted data, or just whatever they thing you want to hear so the torture stops?
There have been several ads that have pissed me off enough so I don't buy from that store, purchase that product, or go to that restaruant for years if not till present. Lately I haven't been watching TV because more and more commercials piss me off, and I need to be able to buy SOMETHING so I can live.
I guess that still makes me a slave to the consumerist mindwashing though. I do really need food however.
Well, for the exact reason they have a primary key. There is no guarantee that combination is unique. Unless by address, you mean address, city, state, country, postal code... Then you run into some convienence issues. I mean, which would you rather enter every time you go to your online banking?
UN of 22435623 and a password?
Or
Jane Doe
22445 North Ave
New York, NY USA 10003
and a password?
Plus as security goes, your name and address are pretty easily guessable whereas a somewhat random UID isn't, so then an attacker not only has to get your password,but UID.
Wish I could. I even changed ISPs. The fastest our phone lines go is 21000 baud. No cable. No DSL. I cannot afford $100 a month for satalite.
Proxomitron is not integrated into Opera. I find that a benefit. I set it up on my internet proxy machine, and all PC's (3) get the benefit of ad blocking.
Granted it doesn't run on Linux(well, it does with wine, but I'm not l33t) or MAC, but I'm only using WinXP on all machines in my house and for the forseeable future.
Adding blocks is the only thing that is remotely difficult(but as I said, I rarely have to add anything). I go to one of the forums and ask for a filter to add. I then paste that in.
You are right in terms of adding new images to block. However, with adblock, can you fix problems with pages so they load correctly? Can you refigure google with additional features [http://my.opera.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&post id=716501]. Etc... I use proxomitron for so much more than adblocking (btw - can you get rid of "sponsored" links and text ads with AdBlock?).
Have you ever tried proxomitron? Best ad remover out there IMO. Plus so much more. Check out the new JD5000 Advanced Alpha set, see what they've done with google! If people write filters, you can change any site to meet your needs, even that dramatically.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm, that does seem to severly limit the number of tabs you can have open at once as well as take a pretty big chunk of screen realestate compared to traditional tabs.
I found Snow Crash to be very enjoyable, though somewhat *risque*(pornographic?) at certain points. Overall it reminded me of Tad William's Otherland series, which I sadly have yet to finish...
I want to say that of reviews I often read, I find the slashdot ones the most relevant and useful.
It might because it's written by someone with a similar computer geek background, or maybe because it is less professional and more like what a friend would tell me about a book. The fully polished reviews of magazines are more like analytical or critical english 101 essays from my point of view than the slashdot ones.
To each their own, but I find that a short review does nothing for me - I too can read the back of the book. These longer reviews are quite helpful, assuming that the reviewer manages to keep most of the plot to themselves, and I think this reviewer manages that quite well.
Grammar Nazi time. I see this all the time on slashdot:
car will wear out before or shortly after it's payed off.
paid. It's paid.
Dictionary.com: paid
v.
Past tense and past participle of pay.
Well, one thing that is taught in all the review books etc for the standardized tests like SAT or GMAT in the math areas are stratigies.
Basically the idea is to figure out a way to quickly (say in 5 seconds) look at a complex formula or math problem and estimate the answer so you get close enough to pick the right one out of 5 choices.
I'm not good at this as I've always worked out problems, and am struggling to remember and use the various tricks to very quickly answer the questions for my upcoming GMAT.
Of course, this really is only useful if you have some question with 5 possible answers given. Which most likely will never happen in real life.
Well, proxomitron with the latest Gryphen filters blocks all the ads mentioned so far...
You might want to look into proximodo, an opensource proxomitron clone that will compile on linux. It's in alpha right now though, so check back in a while.
Jesus, now everything is stealing. So if I go to the bathroom during a commercial, I'm stealing TV?
What about ignoring a billboard along a road so I can watch traffic. Am I stealing the road or some shit?
If I only read the articles in Playboy, am I stealing the models - oh wait, messed up the logic there.
No, the logic is messed up anyway. They put the data out there. I am not forced to look at their data. I can choose to read what data I want. Ergo, I choose not to read the ads. How the fuck is this stealing?
If they want me to read the ads, then make it mandatory, a la Salon. Or require subscriptions. I know I would view less websites that way, and you'd have to offer something amazing or at least pretty good for me to pay for it, but you's be assured someones money.
Well, the big filtersets for proxomitron do this, so it probably would be a good idea. Check out JD5000 sets with Fake ad clicks filter for ideas about how they implemented it.
Actually I don't worry about that. I just keep using the same program (Eudora 5.2 for me)...
Eventually I guess I'll have to change whenever the platform dies (Windows 32) but that's a while out still.
Wouldn't it make more sense to ... oh I don't know .. throw a dialog box error and offer to make a new PST file rather than corrupting data to make the point?
Typical MS I guess.
I don't find this relegated to outsourced tech support. It's just that tech support seems to be an afterthought for most companies.
The thing that pisses me off the most is that the only reason I call tech support is because I need to talk to someone who knows more about the product than I do. For the past few years, I feel like I could save time by asking my computer illeterate local gas station attendent for help and get the same service.
No. I do think it makes you somewhat gullible though. Perhaps credulous is a better term.
Let me say that I am less than impressed with Giant AntiSpyware. The reason is primarily the false positives.
Neither TightVNC, RealVNC nor WinPCap are spyware. Yet it flagged them as such.
As someone currently near finishing their BS and planning on going on to get a MBA or MIS (depending on how applications go), I have to ask...
Would you consider a person applying for a job out of High School a better candidate than someone out of College? Assuming of course the experiance is equivelent (none).
Because it seems like you are implying that College isn't worth much, so that would mean the ideal candidate would logically needed to get a job out of High School and likely wouldn't have had experiance at that point (at some point in each persons life, they MUST get a job lacking work experiance).
So that makes me think that many of the people in this thread prefer hiring High School graduates vs college graduates.
As far as inline virus removal, see the current NOD32. It does autoupdates also - does cost a yearly fee.
Well, the lab is isolated pretty well from anything important. The instructor basically doesn't want to update all the slides, find a new text book etc...
I'll suggest trying to find the rpm of firefox the next time we have class (thanksgiving break and all).
The big "power user" syndrome seems to be that we are pretty used to the windows way - which isn't a valid argument against something I know.
This may be related to this, but I always find online based systems far less reliable than something I can run without the net(and as I understand these systems - such as YaST2 in SuSE 9.1 Pro(the latest linux I've used) require the net).
In windows, I can take the installer for Opera, my firewall of choice, my word processor, my games, etc... and burn the downloaded installers on a CD to install again if I have to reformat or whatever. I have no idea how I would do that if I installed all my software from, say, YaST. It seems I would have to re-download everything.
The other thing I dislike is the fact that on Windows, the day a new Opera version comes out(for instance) I can upgrade, but with SuSE, I had to wait a few days to a week to upgrade - that was unnecessary time vunerable to the security issue patched in the new version!
Well, I don't know what "mere mortals" you know, but in my college 471 network lab class we are using RedHat 7.3 (IDK Why, the school refuses to upgrade).
One of my classmates has spent the entire semester till now trying to install FireFox with no success. Everyone else is stuck using Mozilla 0.9 that came with it as we cannot seem to install any software not specially prepared by the instructor.
These are Computer Information System majors, who have taken programming classes, data communication classes, and have done projects with various software to get to a high 400 level class. We cannot get software to install on linux reliably.
I somehow got the Opera 7.54 install to work, I really don't know why it did work, but it did. I've told him to use the same gnomerpm program with FF but it doesn't work. And why do I need a program to install a program? It just doesn't make any sense.
Well, the validation works fine from Opera. I get 227 errors on that page, and something about it not being valid HTML 3.2.
Some of the errors are:
Line 8, column 14: there is no attribute "TYPE"
Line 38, column 11: there is no attribute "TOPMARGIN"
Line 38, column 26: there is no attribute "LEFTMARGIN"
Line 39, column 13: there is no attribute "MARGINWIDTH"
Line 39, column 30: there is no attribute "MARGINHEIGHT"
Line 43, column 8: there is no attribute "BGCOLOR"
It goes on...
Actually, the college I go to has a failing grade of E, simply to differentiate between failing a class you take for a grade, and failing a class you take Pass/Fail.
What about the systems that have two passwords, one with "dummy data" or misleading data or whatever, and one that shows the real info?
The problem with torture is that well, depending on the circumstances, how can you ever know if you actually are getting correct data, planted data, or just whatever they thing you want to hear so the torture stops?
There have been several ads that have pissed me off enough so I don't buy from that store, purchase that product, or go to that restaruant for years if not till present. Lately I haven't been watching TV because more and more commercials piss me off, and I need to be able to buy SOMETHING so I can live.
I guess that still makes me a slave to the consumerist mindwashing though. I do really need food however.
Well, for the exact reason they have a primary key. There is no guarantee that combination is unique. Unless by address, you mean address, city, state, country, postal code... Then you run into some convienence issues. I mean, which would you rather enter every time you go to your online banking? UN of 22435623 and a password? Or Jane Doe 22445 North Ave New York, NY USA 10003 and a password? Plus as security goes, your name and address are pretty easily guessable whereas a somewhat random UID isn't, so then an attacker not only has to get your password,but UID.
Wish I could. I even changed ISPs. The fastest our phone lines go is 21000 baud. No cable. No DSL. I cannot afford $100 a month for satalite.
t id=716501]. Etc... I use proxomitron for so much more than adblocking (btw - can you get rid of "sponsored" links and text ads with AdBlock?).
Proxomitron is not integrated into Opera. I find that a benefit. I set it up on my internet proxy machine, and all PC's (3) get the benefit of ad blocking.
Granted it doesn't run on Linux(well, it does with wine, but I'm not l33t) or MAC, but I'm only using WinXP on all machines in my house and for the forseeable future.
Adding blocks is the only thing that is remotely difficult(but as I said, I rarely have to add anything). I go to one of the forums and ask for a filter to add. I then paste that in.
You are right in terms of adding new images to block. However, with adblock, can you fix problems with pages so they load correctly? Can you refigure google with additional features [http://my.opera.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&pos
Have you ever tried proxomitron? Best ad remover out there IMO. Plus so much more. Check out the new JD5000 Advanced Alpha set, see what they've done with google! If people write filters, you can change any site to meet your needs, even that dramatically.
Indeed. I find FF to be uglier than Opera for example. At least comparing the defaults. FF looks soooo win98.