Why use PowerPoint? Opera supports a "slides" mode that makes use of CSS to present both a webpage view (normal view) and a slides view (full screen view).
Ordinary HTML, fully usable by other browsers, and with Flash embedded, more than PowerPoint can hope to e'er be.
Of course it selects all the text in the string. Not too often one's wanting to actually insert text instead of type a brand new URL that reuses the window.
Seriously, speaking as someone with an IQ in the high genius range: the first thing you have to learn is how NOT to walk around telling everyone how frelling smart you are.
Rule One of the Smart Club: You DO NOT Talk About The Smart Club.
Sorry, buddy. You just eliminated yourself from it.
...is to hang out on Slashdot, of course. Especially at the -1 filter level. My goodness, this place positively drips with intelligence. All the smart kids hang out here.
[heh. try that again, this time without the angle brackets!]
Well it's a damn shame they broke it for other browsers.
They didn't use the <link rel="next"> meta-tag. Which means, for instance, Opera can't use its default "fast-forward" shortcuts to automagically go to the next page when I hit left-down+right-click.
Well it's a damn shame they broke it for other browsers.
They didn't use the meta-tag. Which means, for instance, Opera can't use its default "fast-forward" shortcuts to automagically go to the next page when I hit left-down+right-click.
Use ReST (ReStructured Text) and DocUtils. DocUtils outputs perfectly nice XML (ignore the HTML, LaTeX, and other options). It's then easy enough to use XSL:FO and FOP/XEP to transform the XML to PDF.
Been using it for a year, and I'm absolutely flippin' delighted with it. Structured documentation that's both open-standard and imminently readable, yet delivers great PDFs.
Of course, I will now be modded down as an anti-German racist
Well, no. You should be modded down as an anti-soldier bigot.
There's a very good chance that your country has soldiers engaged in a military action that others see as warfare against an ethnic group. Presumably those soldier continue their action because they have promised on their honour to uphold their country's decisions.
Should the US soldier in Iraq be shunned for participating in an illegal war? Should the Israeli soldier dropping bombs on Palestinian houses be scapegoated for killing civilians?
Well, yes, probably they should: the world would be a lot better if every common person were to just act decently toward every other human being.
But we don't: they are soldiers who committed to doing what they are being told by our own elected governments to do, and out of respect for that commitment we promise to look after them for life.
Well, okay, maybe not for life, as some of our countries seem a little too eager to cut back veteran's pay and healthcare and long-term group home care. But for most of their life. An admittedly short life given that some of our countries seem a little too reluctant to supply airworthy helicopters or bulletproof vests.
Come to think of it, maybe our own nations are anti-soldier bigots. How ironic...
Well, remember the "admit you stole our music, then erase it all and never do it again" koff indeminity program koff they offered? The one by which you'd have provided them with your name and address?
Same folk who participated in that are the same folk who'd cough up dough when they received a mildly threatening letter from RIAA.
Over the past decade or so I've tried Linux on and off a half-dozen times. Every time, I've gone back to Windows, which blows goats but at least lets me get my g.d. work done instead of having to continually f*** with obscure configuration files.
But I've installed FreeBSD a week ago, and it's going along pretty well. There's still a fair bit of f***ing with configs, but less so: it's secure from the start.
FreeBSD feels, to me, like it was designed. Linux always feels like it just accumulated by accident.
When the OS crashes, when the cell rings, when I'm feeling mad... these are a few of my favourite things, and then I don't feel so bad:
Home wireless. Nothing like checking my stocks while I'm on the shitter!
Rewired power plug: using RCA jacks inline, the DC/laptop end of my power is now a right-angle dongle. Far less susceptible to breakage, and the extra few feet of cable is really nice. Plus the RCA jack makes it dead easy to replace the plug if it ever does break.
Laptop desk: no more burnt knees.
Good laptop bag: kinda wish I'd grabbed a knapsack style one instead of briefcase/purse style. The one-shoulder thing is fine for short distances, absolutely sucks for long walks.
My wife's host device must have a read-head error -- whenever I put my schlong in it, we go through a labourious eject/re-insert cycle as it tries to access the DNA data.
The only way this is going to change is if the patent office becomes liable for the total defense costs + 20% of anybody who engaged in a patent fight and had the patent ruled invalid.
No, the only way this is going to change is if the US legal system implements a loser-pay format. Assholes like this wouldn't dare press forward, knowing that they will lose the case and end up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
Of course, there's always my favourite solution: a loser-dies format. Kill the fuckers outright.
If it weren't for the multitude of scum-sucking slime lawyers, like the SCO creeps, there wouldn't be a need for the opposing "Good" laywers that fight against them.
There are good lawyers in the IP industry, hell, yes.
Would that be IP lawyer, as in those scum-sucking demons from hell that patents ridiculous "it's doing X... on the Internet!" claims, then runs about suing that ass off everyone and their dog who thought about it before you?
Would that be IP lawyer, like those cursed unnameable evil ones who work for SCO, stealing open-source code and claiming it for their own?
Would that be IP lawyer, like the ones who are racing around the world patenting perfectly ordinary plants and animals so that no one else may benefit by them?
And you ask Slashdot for advice?
Damn, I'd hate to be on the receiving end of that question.
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Why use PowerPoint? Opera supports a "slides" mode that makes use of CSS to present both a webpage view (normal view) and a slides view (full screen view).
Ordinary HTML, fully usable by other browsers, and with Flash embedded, more than PowerPoint can hope to e'er be.
Of course it selects all the text in the string. Not too often one's wanting to actually insert text instead of type a brand new URL that reuses the window.
A second click sets the insertion point. Groovy.
It's even less like Python, because Python has a port named Jython which... you guessed it! provides Python scripting within Java.
Yah, well, note that some boob still thought it was a serious, insightful post. Gah.
Seriously, speaking as someone with an IQ in the high genius range: the first thing you have to learn is how NOT to walk around telling everyone how frelling smart you are.
Rule One of the Smart Club: You DO NOT Talk About The Smart Club.
Sorry, buddy. You just eliminated yourself from it.
...is to hang out on Slashdot, of course. Especially at the -1 filter level. My goodness, this place positively drips with intelligence. All the smart kids hang out here.
[rolls eyes]
The five-day chart is great. The stock dropped like a whore's drawers at market open today.
I believe you're talking about Opera, then. It's been doing state-saving for years.
[heh. try that again, this time without the angle brackets!]
Well it's a damn shame they broke it for other browsers.
They didn't use the <link rel="next"> meta-tag. Which means, for instance, Opera can't use its default "fast-forward" shortcuts to automagically go to the next page when I hit left-down+right-click.
Well it's a damn shame they broke it for other browsers.
They didn't use the meta-tag. Which means, for instance, Opera can't use its default "fast-forward" shortcuts to automagically go to the next page when I hit left-down+right-click.
If I recall correctly, several of the Linux and BSD distros use Python for their installers.
So, no, I guess it wouldn't be any big deal. Certainly not Slashdot front-page stuff.
News for nerds, stuff that matters? Not this time.
It's time to bring in the Waco BATF squad. Maybe some good can come of their bumbling idiocy!
Use ReST (ReStructured Text) and DocUtils. DocUtils outputs perfectly nice XML (ignore the HTML, LaTeX, and other options). It's then easy enough to use XSL:FO and FOP/XEP to transform the XML to PDF.
Been using it for a year, and I'm absolutely flippin' delighted with it. Structured documentation that's both open-standard and imminently readable, yet delivers great PDFs.
Of course, I will now be modded down as an anti-German racist
Well, no. You should be modded down as an anti-soldier bigot.
There's a very good chance that your country has soldiers engaged in a military action that others see as warfare against an ethnic group. Presumably those soldier continue their action because they have promised on their honour to uphold their country's decisions.
Should the US soldier in Iraq be shunned for participating in an illegal war? Should the Israeli soldier dropping bombs on Palestinian houses be scapegoated for killing civilians?
Well, yes, probably they should: the world would be a lot better if every common person were to just act decently toward every other human being.
But we don't: they are soldiers who committed to doing what they are being told by our own elected governments to do, and out of respect for that commitment we promise to look after them for life.
Well, okay, maybe not for life, as some of our countries seem a little too eager to cut back veteran's pay and healthcare and long-term group home care. But for most of their life. An admittedly short life given that some of our countries seem a little too reluctant to supply airworthy helicopters or bulletproof vests.
Come to think of it, maybe our own nations are anti-soldier bigots. How ironic...
How's that work...??
Well, remember the "admit you stole our music, then erase it all and never do it again" koff indeminity program koff they offered? The one by which you'd have provided them with your name and address?
Same folk who participated in that are the same folk who'd cough up dough when they received a mildly threatening letter from RIAA.
Over the past decade or so I've tried Linux on and off a half-dozen times. Every time, I've gone back to Windows, which blows goats but at least lets me get my g.d. work done instead of having to continually f*** with obscure configuration files.
But I've installed FreeBSD a week ago, and it's going along pretty well. There's still a fair bit of f***ing with configs, but less so: it's secure from the start.
FreeBSD feels, to me, like it was designed. Linux always feels like it just accumulated by accident.
When the OS crashes, when the cell rings, when I'm feeling mad... these are a few of my favourite things, and then I don't feel so bad:
Home wireless. Nothing like checking my stocks while I'm on the shitter!
Rewired power plug: using RCA jacks inline, the DC/laptop end of my power is now a right-angle dongle. Far less susceptible to breakage, and the extra few feet of cable is really nice. Plus the RCA jack makes it dead easy to replace the plug if it ever does break.
Laptop desk: no more burnt knees.
Good laptop bag: kinda wish I'd grabbed a knapsack style one instead of briefcase/purse style. The one-shoulder thing is fine for short distances, absolutely sucks for long walks.
My wife's host device must have a read-head error -- whenever I put my schlong in it, we go through a labourious eject/re-insert cycle as it tries to access the DNA data.
...which were once our main industry.
Fortunately replaced by a new and more profitable industry: hearing aid sales to everyone within ten miles of the device.
To further the analogy, then, we should bomb SCO headquarters with Fentanyl, just like the Russians did.
The only way this is going to change is if the patent office becomes liable for the total defense costs + 20% of anybody who engaged in a patent fight and had the patent ruled invalid.
No, the only way this is going to change is if the US legal system implements a loser-pay format. Assholes like this wouldn't dare press forward, knowing that they will lose the case and end up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
Of course, there's always my favourite solution: a loser-dies format. Kill the fuckers outright.
THIS IS NOT AN INVITATION TO A FLAME WAR.
Does anyone have factual comparisons of a reasonably-tweaked Linux (2.6 kernel) with a reasonably-tweaked [x]BSD (whatever kernel)?
...that can't be good.
If it weren't for the multitude of scum-sucking slime lawyers, like the SCO creeps, there wouldn't be a need for the opposing "Good" laywers that fight against them.
There are good lawyers in the IP industry, hell, yes.
They are not, IMO, in the majority.
You want to become an IP lawyer.
Would that be IP lawyer, as in those scum-sucking demons from hell that patents ridiculous "it's doing X... on the Internet!" claims, then runs about suing that ass off everyone and their dog who thought about it before you?
Would that be IP lawyer, like those cursed unnameable evil ones who work for SCO, stealing open-source code and claiming it for their own?
Would that be IP lawyer, like the ones who are racing around the world patenting perfectly ordinary plants and animals so that no one else may benefit by them?
And you ask Slashdot for advice?
Damn, I'd hate to be on the receiving end of that question.
(Is there any such thing as a good IP lawyer?)