You were modded funny, so I hope they're right and you were joking. I don't care which a trek fan calls themself, but damn the man who thinks the conotational divergence between two monikers perscribed to Star Trek Fans is grand enough to justify wasting everyone else's time ranting about it.
Currently, the FBI and local police branches do not keep an active sample of DNA, just the test results. These DNA profiles, would allow a qualified individual to make statistical assumptions about the person's ethic background and a few other things, but all that should already be in a convicts police profile. The photo in the file would be far more revealing than the DNA results. It would hardly reveal all their genetic defects and allergies.
The database allows investigators to match criminal's to a crime and to maternal relations. That remains it's only real use.
It is possible they'll try to keep more defined DNA profiles in the future, but extensive tests are expensive, and unnecessary for criminal investigations. They wouldn't keep active DNA samples either, like blood samples, DNA samples don't last forever and take up space. It's a heck of a lot cheaper to just keep the basic profile on file.
Actually no. Witty satire has often been an important part of exposing the public to political movements. (I've always been a fan of G.K. Chesterton) Your comment reminds me of a recent Article by ol' Dvorak:
No sense of humor. Today's papers have no collective sense of humor or fun. This is partly because of the [Pulitzer style] J-schools and the need to be "professional." I haven't seen anyone laugh in a newsroom for decades. This may come from political correctness, or perhaps from some public-guardian ego trip. Maybe too many of the people working daily news beats are just duds.
While recently perusing 1950s-era San Francisco Examiner issues, I was shocked to find that the paper was crammed with small and interesting stories, many of which now would go into the reject folder. The paper had real life to it thenlife that is now missing. Let's not blame the Internet for this.
Some of what he said was your basic "good old days" ranting, but lets face it, if you're going to challenge people you've got to amuse them too. It should be a sin to be as boring as the modern news; playing stories that don't offend, don't challenge, and are remarkably similar to the same stories they played last week. You know, the ones that got the big ratings.
If we all agreed we'd get no where as well, whats the point of doing anything if we're all happy with the same thing. I wouldn't have to go out to talk to people because I'd get the same views I could get by talking in the mirror. I'd rather not be surrounded by sheep.
As long as there are different views there will be sides. The key is to not generalize the views of all the individuals in a group. Even within a 'side' opinions differ.
Yeah I'm not afraid of the.ini files, but Opera Search.ini Editor (Op6sed) made it a heck of a lot easier to get the correct search link, and set up short cuts.
Preview one had some Processor leaks, but was fairly stable.
The only real error I've noticed so far in Preview 2 is the animated gif speed error. Oh no my gifs are too fast! Not exactly a top priority problem.
Preview two is currently using 0-3% of my CPU but a whopping 62M of my 512 of memory. However, that amount might have something to do with the fact that I have 15 tabs open at the moment.;)
I agree with you about the the RSS feeds. Opera's format doesn't impress me, I'm quite happy using Thunderbird for email, I don't need Opera's client.
No there is no built in support for.org and.net, but it took me less than three minutes to find the relevant Ctrl-Enter keyboard shortcut which gave me all the info I needed to apply it to a.org or.net shortcut.
Tools>Preference>Advanced>Shortcuts>Edit Keyboard Setup>Advanced>Address Drop Down Widget>Enter ctrl
Your issues with congestion and fonts and interface are all easily rectified. Taking no more time to change than downloading and setting up several extensions.
For the most part if your code is up to standards it looks fine in opera. 90% of the time it renders like Mozilla. Opera is not making the designers job harder. It's closer than most to passing the Acid 2 test.
I'm already trying it out. Full of more great stuff, as one expects. They smoothed out a lot of the features they added in Preview 1 and added so much more.
I heard reports of problems with upgrading so I did a clean install and spent the afternoon adding my custom buttons and changing my search options. (I no longer have to use 3rd party tools to change them)
Between custom buttons, panels, and widgets I think Opera can now easily do anything a Firefox extension can do.
Honestly these companies keep saying DVD is going the way of the dodo, but for now I predict that these new technologies are the new beta-max. People have bought huge numbers of DVDs of old and new favorites. The video quality is just fine. Is there any real need to buy a whole new player with more expensive media and a smaller number of released titles?
For this to work they need a better incentive than slightly better image quality. (Like old Robocop is going to look better anyway) When DVDs came out they had better image quality, lots of added content and they saved space on your bookshelf.
Their only chance is to make us switch by taking DVD versions off the market. Which could be a pr and marketing disaster.
Most definitely. Family Guy is the master of the random. It doesn't go to far like some of the shows on Cartoon Network, completely de-attaching themselves from reality. Some of the Adult Swim shows go to far and it becomes impossible to relate to the situation.
Exactly. Southpark, Futurama, The Simpsons(not the new stuff), etc show intelligences. Family Guy shows a joy of pop-culture, irony, slap-stick and just pure randomness but it isn't smart humor. What Family Guy really lacks is any sort of meaning. There is never any real deeper message. There are no ideas presented beyond the humor, and the copying and splicing of plots from popular culture.
Oh and the Farthest I've seen Family Guy humor go back is a musical number taken from The Road to Morocco('42). Most of Stewie's references are older than the rest of the cast.
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While opera is a faster, more stable browser (probably because it isn't open source) and is loaded with many great features, those features are it.
No those features aren't it. Between, buttons, pannels, UserJs, menu setups, and Opera mini programs Anyone can do a lot to add functionality to their Opera. The key addable feature, of course, is an ad blocker program.
It's also fairly easy to make changes to operas.ini files yourself. You don't need to download an extension just to add an "Open in IE" to your right click menu.
With Firefox you can download extensions to make tabbed browsing even better than just having multiple tabs. You can download extensions to label and organize tabs and give the ability to drag them, and to have pages that should open in a new window, open in a new tab instead.
Wow you can drag tabs? How amazing! Wouldn't it be great if you could do those things out of the box? Wouldn't it be great if the tab focus order was based off order of viewing just like the Windows task bar? That would be sweet.
Where Opera really beats Firefox is in the download manager. There is just no comparison. I'm still shocked that Firefox lacks a spell checker(except google toolbar), when both Opera and Safari have one.
Fool, Opera might not be open source but you can change almost anything about the browsers. You can modify Opera to do almost anything any extension can. Extensions are for the lazy who don't want to write their own code.
Ok I'll stop. The point is, I love Opera, I like Google... but this is a horrible idea. Google has it's own interests, a quality browser isn't their main goal. The browser would just be a tool to make money with it's many Google mini-businesses. The browser will suffer because of it.
Bah, Fry stole it from Captain Kirk, the original Robot Paradox creator! He destroyed robots on at least 3 separate occasions using his masterful use of nonsense statements and paradoxes.
United States still has one of the largest rural populations of any first-world nation. It really isn't urbanized at all. New York skews the results. For example: Wyoming has about 1 person for every 6 miles. More importantly, dense or not, there is still an unbelievable amount of line to lay. You would be better off to compare laying line in the US to laying line in Europe and not to a specific European country.
And all these businesses are completely ignoring the fact that 'recording' television is part of what makes it watchable... Come on Disney, who's going to watch Lost if we can't tape the weeks we miss? We'll keep using our VCR's as long as they're compatible I guess.
It's THE site for people just starting to use Opera. It shows you how to block ads, add search sites like wikipeda to your custom searches, set Opera to identify as IE on specific sites only, Heck you could even learn to edit your Opera6.ini and add an "Open Firefox" to your File Menu.
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Another possible title...
Sweeping Generalisations that aren't 100% true.
I mean none of these are shocking or worth are time and his arguments are far from revolutionary either. Oh well, there's 20 min down the drain.
Nope just in my 20's in central Indiana. :P I went to school in central Ohio though. It would be freaky if I already knew you.
I'm a girl but I wouldn't touch myspace with a ten foot pole.
You were modded funny, so I hope they're right and you were joking. I don't care which a trek fan calls themself, but damn the man who thinks the conotational divergence between two monikers perscribed to Star Trek Fans is grand enough to justify wasting everyone else's time ranting about it.
Actually history tells us two thing. Unexpected things happen, and the most expensive console almost never wins.
Sega Saturn3DO
NeoGeo
Intelevision (I had one, it was awesome. It still lost to Atari)
Currently, the FBI and local police branches do not keep an active sample of DNA, just the test results. These DNA profiles, would allow a qualified individual to make statistical assumptions about the person's ethic background and a few other things, but all that should already be in a convicts police profile. The photo in the file would be far more revealing than the DNA results. It would hardly reveal all their genetic defects and allergies.
The database allows investigators to match criminal's to a crime and to maternal relations. That remains it's only real use.
It is possible they'll try to keep more defined DNA profiles in the future, but extensive tests are expensive, and unnecessary for criminal investigations. They wouldn't keep active DNA samples either, like blood samples, DNA samples don't last forever and take up space. It's a heck of a lot cheaper to just keep the basic profile on file.
Actually no. Witty satire has often been an important part of exposing the public to political movements. (I've always been a fan of G.K. Chesterton) Your comment reminds me of a recent Article by ol' Dvorak:
Some of what he said was your basic "good old days" ranting, but lets face it, if you're going to challenge people you've got to amuse them too. It should be a sin to be as boring as the modern news; playing stories that don't offend, don't challenge, and are remarkably similar to the same stories they played last week. You know, the ones that got the big ratings.If we all agreed we'd get no where as well, whats the point of doing anything if we're all happy with the same thing. I wouldn't have to go out to talk to people because I'd get the same views I could get by talking in the mirror. I'd rather not be surrounded by sheep.
As long as there are different views there will be sides. The key is to not generalize the views of all the individuals in a group. Even within a 'side' opinions differ.
In other news the grass is green!
It's not slowing them down. Opera has a bug with animated gifs, some people see slow gifs some people see super fast gifs.
Yes, I know I was refering to previous versions.
Yeah I'm not afraid of the .ini files, but Opera Search.ini Editor (Op6sed) made it a heck of a lot easier to get the correct search link, and set up short cuts.
Preview one had some Processor leaks, but was fairly stable.
The only real error I've noticed so far in Preview 2 is the animated gif speed error. Oh no my gifs are too fast! Not exactly a top priority problem.
Preview two is currently using 0-3% of my CPU but a whopping 62M of my 512 of memory. However, that amount might have something to do with the fact that I have 15 tabs open at the moment. ;)
I agree with you about the the RSS feeds. Opera's format doesn't impress me, I'm quite happy using Thunderbird for email, I don't need Opera's client.
No there is no built in support for .org and .net, but it took me less than three minutes to find the relevant Ctrl-Enter keyboard shortcut which gave me all the info I needed to apply it to a .org or .net shortcut.
Tools>Preference>Advanced>Shortcuts>Edit Keyboard Setup>Advanced>Address Drop Down Widget>Enter ctrlYour issues with congestion and fonts and interface are all easily rectified. Taking no more time to change than downloading and setting up several extensions.
For the most part if your code is up to standards it looks fine in opera. 90% of the time it renders like Mozilla. Opera is not making the designers job harder. It's closer than most to passing the Acid 2 test.
I'm already trying it out. Full of more great stuff, as one expects. They smoothed out a lot of the features they added in Preview 1 and added so much more.
I heard reports of problems with upgrading so I did a clean install and spent the afternoon adding my custom buttons and changing my search options. (I no longer have to use 3rd party tools to change them)
Between custom buttons, panels, and widgets I think Opera can now easily do anything a Firefox extension can do.
Honestly these companies keep saying DVD is going the way of the dodo, but for now I predict that these new technologies are the new beta-max. People have bought huge numbers of DVDs of old and new favorites. The video quality is just fine. Is there any real need to buy a whole new player with more expensive media and a smaller number of released titles?
For this to work they need a better incentive than slightly better image quality. (Like old Robocop is going to look better anyway) When DVDs came out they had better image quality, lots of added content and they saved space on your bookshelf.
Their only chance is to make us switch by taking DVD versions off the market. Which could be a pr and marketing disaster.
I clicked the link. I'm a felon!
Mom would be so proud. :)
Most definitely. Family Guy is the master of the random. It doesn't go to far like some of the shows on Cartoon Network, completely de-attaching themselves from reality. Some of the Adult Swim shows go to far and it becomes impossible to relate to the situation.
Exactly. Southpark, Futurama, The Simpsons(not the new stuff), etc show intelligences. Family Guy shows a joy of pop-culture, irony, slap-stick and just pure randomness but it isn't smart humor. What Family Guy really lacks is any sort of meaning. There is never any real deeper message. There are no ideas presented beyond the humor, and the copying and splicing of plots from popular culture.
Oh and the Farthest I've seen Family Guy humor go back is a musical number taken from The Road to Morocco('42). Most of Stewie's references are older than the rest of the cast.
While opera is a faster, more stable browser (probably because it isn't open source) and is loaded with many great features, those features are it.
No those features aren't it. Between, buttons, pannels, UserJs, menu setups, and Opera mini programs Anyone can do a lot to add functionality to their Opera. The key addable feature, of course, is an ad blocker program.
It's also fairly easy to make changes to operas .ini files yourself. You don't need to download an extension just to add an "Open in IE" to your right click menu.
With Firefox you can download extensions to make tabbed browsing even better than just having multiple tabs. You can download extensions to label and organize tabs and give the ability to drag them, and to have pages that should open in a new window, open in a new tab instead.
Wow you can drag tabs? How amazing! Wouldn't it be great if you could do those things out of the box? Wouldn't it be great if the tab focus order was based off order of viewing just like the Windows task bar? That would be sweet.
Where Opera really beats Firefox is in the download manager. There is just no comparison. I'm still shocked that Firefox lacks a spell checker(except google toolbar), when both Opera and Safari have one.
Fool, Opera might not be open source but you can change almost anything about the browsers. You can modify Opera to do almost anything any extension can. Extensions are for the lazy who don't want to write their own code.
Ok I'll stop. The point is, I love Opera, I like Google... but this is a horrible idea. Google has it's own interests, a quality browser isn't their main goal. The browser would just be a tool to make money with it's many Google mini-businesses. The browser will suffer because of it.
Bah, Fry stole it from Captain Kirk, the original Robot Paradox creator! He destroyed robots on at least 3 separate occasions using his masterful use of nonsense statements and paradoxes.
United States still has one of the largest rural populations of any first-world nation. It really isn't urbanized at all. New York skews the results. For example: Wyoming has about 1 person for every 6 miles. More importantly, dense or not, there is still an unbelievable amount of line to lay. You would be better off to compare laying line in the US to laying line in Europe and not to a specific European country.
And all these businesses are completely ignoring the fact that 'recording' television is part of what makes it watchable... Come on Disney, who's going to watch Lost if we can't tape the weeks we miss? We'll keep using our VCR's as long as they're compatible I guess.
Here use this site, VelocityBoy: http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera
It's THE site for people just starting to use Opera. It shows you how to block ads, add search sites like wikipeda to your custom searches, set Opera to identify as IE on specific sites only, Heck you could even learn to edit your Opera6.ini and add an "Open Firefox" to your File Menu.
And don't forget to install spell check: http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/opera/spell check/
So you don't look like a spelling moron on Slashdot.