Extensions can cause a major slowdown of Firefox. Unfortunate, but true. Some are worse than others. Particularly bad are guesture and tabbed window extensions. Try disabling all your extensions, I'm sure you will notice a dramatic speed increase, I know I do. From there you can slowly enable them to see which ones are sucking up resources. When you find them, see if there are alternate versions of them availible, as those will sometimes be better. If not, decide how important it is and consider scrapping it.
It's Nascars fault. They have been promoting their "speed" propaganda for some time now. They have trained a generation to not know how to drive! It's all about F1's and Indy, where it actually takes skill and moving of the steering wheel. Any idiot can hold down the gas pedal. It takes skill to steer on the fastest path.
Also, in terms of street legal cars, that's why I'm all about Porsche's. Even better, the new Mini can out-handle a Carrera 4 in the slolam!
Red Hat is the only viable company IF your in the US. SuSE is huge in Europe, and now that Novell bought them, I'm sure they'll grow pretty big here in the states as well.
...OR we could have been created 1 second ago and God just stuck all these "memories" in our brains! Ever think about that one!? (I know - it screws with your mind!)
All we know is now and the future. Don't think about the past except to learn from their mistakes.
Agreed. That's the number 1 reason I didn't get any papers done, cause I would open it up, then see who was on IM, and ooh! I haven't talked to that person in ~5 mins! Let's see what's new with them! And the paper would sit there without so much as my name on it!
I've heard another wacky theory, although kinda the opposite. The theory is that the world was covered with a vapor cloud which blocked most of the UV so people were exposed to almost none of it. At that point also most of the land would have been a desert. Then when Noah's flood came along then all that vapor condensed and fell, dramatically reducing the lifespan of humans cause now there was UV! Kinda wacky, but it is true that all the people who lived to be really old did so before the flood. After the flood the max age was just in the 100's. (Could also be attributed to the loss of genetic pool?)
The problem is that we still rely on hardware! Software is limitless without hardware, but the stupid hardware people insit on limiting our abilities! If we didn't have hardware, the software would be easy to fix, just patch it and upload the new version!
You don't need a separate format for surround (unless you are itching to waste drive space and need the absolute highest quality possible). I have a great MP3 which is Pro Logic encoded, I hook my computer up to my stereo, which has a Pro Logic decoder, via a standard stereo 3.5mm mini jack -> RCA and my stereo decodes it just fine. Damn nice surround effects at that.
...you know, this could actually prove benificial... To fund all this crap that our tax dollars can't nearly cover, they should let the 18 year olds get drunk and use the robots in fights. (ala Robot Wars) Hell, I'd pay to whatch a battle between two robots if they were both controlled by drunk people and had machine guns on them!
1. Not all games have demos 2. Demos sometimes restrict things that are essential to figuring out if it's good or not. 3. Demos sometimes simply over-restrict and don't give you a good feel at all. 4. Some demos don't work. (A recent example of this for me was Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 - Demo would crash my entire system (gotta love Windows!) every time I tried to start it up - bought the actual game and it works flawlessly!)
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Here's my point of view on the whole matter: I'm 19. That means I'm also pretty much broke. Before I buy a game, I want to make sure it's damn worth my money. When I would pirate a game (I don't anymore - not enough time to even play legal games:-O) I would do so to play it as an "extended demo" pretty much. I pirated plenty of games which quite simply, sucked ass, and I deleted off my computer within the week, if not the same day. The few games that were good I just added to the list of games that I needed to buy. I understand that companies need to make money, and that they spend money on making the games that I enjoy. That is why I support then, WHEN they make a good game. I'm not about to buy a piece of crap game. Why? Because then the company see's that I bought it, assumes that I liked it, and decides to make more piece of crap games.
As far as pirates go who simply pirate so they don't have to pay for the game, that's bad, but I see no problem with making an informed decision before buying a product.
Comon, all of us here at Slashdot should know this. Rule #1 of hacking: He who has access to the physical device, controls the device. It would be all too easy to crack the case of one of these things and change the crystal so that instead of running off of who-knows-what frequency it's now controlled with a 72MHz RC controller! Personally, I don't want these things going into battle for us. We're gonna spend billions on these things and some kid somewhere is gonna come up with an 80 cent way to turn it against us. (Think along the lines of "drawing a circle around the circumference with a pernament marker".)
For all you know, the pilot flying your 747 could be taking naps. The average amount of time a pilot actually flies the plane these days is around 30 minutes, regardless of actual flight time. Autopilot does the rest!:-)
The only reason we still have pilots is because 1. if something does go wrong, they can handle it better than a computer. (Although that will probably become false in the near future) And 2. people would freak out if it were just a computer flying the plane. They want to believe that an actual person is in control.
With NASA's luck, 1 of 2 things will happen: 1. It will hit the comet but they will have done the calculations wrong (because they forgot to convert centimeters to inches) and it will re-direct the comet on a collision course with the Earth.
2. They will hit the comet, but at the moment it hits and they are supposed to be observing it, they will see a hot girl changing in the house next to the observatory and aim thier telescopes there.
...actually the ultimate energy source for the Earth is the sun, it's just that we haven't figured out an effecient enough way to harvest it's energy. (Solor panels suck in comparison to the potential energy in the sun!)
...I hope the EFF get's involved with this one and Google doesn't have to spend a penny on the case. That's right. Google has the money to defend themselves, and the EFF doesn't really have the money, but this is SO STUPID that I could probably defend Google successfully. (As long as I get a judge/jury with half a brain in thier heads. Unfortunatly, that is fairly hard these days.) But really, the EFF needs to get involved in this one, alongside Google. That way, things like this won't even have a chance of arising in the future. (This pr0n guy should be sued for stupidity!)
...Bush said that he wanted to get rid of fivilous lawsuits. Here's his chance to do SOMETHING right!
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Extensions can cause a major slowdown of Firefox. Unfortunate, but true. Some are worse than others. Particularly bad are guesture and tabbed window extensions. Try disabling all your extensions, I'm sure you will notice a dramatic speed increase, I know I do. From there you can slowly enable them to see which ones are sucking up resources. When you find them, see if there are alternate versions of them availible, as those will sometimes be better. If not, decide how important it is and consider scrapping it.
It's Nascars fault. They have been promoting their "speed" propaganda for some time now. They have trained a generation to not know how to drive! It's all about F1's and Indy, where it actually takes skill and moving of the steering wheel. Any idiot can hold down the gas pedal. It takes skill to steer on the fastest path.
Also, in terms of street legal cars, that's why I'm all about Porsche's. Even better, the new Mini can out-handle a Carrera 4 in the slolam!
So what if the university gave a cat an MBA. I can give anyone on Slashdot an MBA also! All that matters is if it's accredited or not.
(I'm also giving away Ph.D's, just give me $20,000 to cover the cost of "tuition" and I'll send you a diploma! (Non-accredited of course!))
Red Hat is the only viable company IF your in the US. SuSE is huge in Europe, and now that Novell bought them, I'm sure they'll grow pretty big here in the states as well.
...OR we could have been created 1 second ago and God just stuck all these "memories" in our brains! Ever think about that one!? (I know - it screws with your mind!)
All we know is now and the future. Don't think about the past except to learn from their mistakes.
Agreed. That's the number 1 reason I didn't get any papers done, cause I would open it up, then see who was on IM, and ooh! I haven't talked to that person in ~5 mins! Let's see what's new with them! And the paper would sit there without so much as my name on it!
If you have a girlfriend/wife, and you have holosex, is it considered cheating on them?
I've heard another wacky theory, although kinda the opposite. The theory is that the world was covered with a vapor cloud which blocked most of the UV so people were exposed to almost none of it. At that point also most of the land would have been a desert. Then when Noah's flood came along then all that vapor condensed and fell, dramatically reducing the lifespan of humans cause now there was UV! Kinda wacky, but it is true that all the people who lived to be really old did so before the flood. After the flood the max age was just in the 100's. (Could also be attributed to the loss of genetic pool?)
...cause trees aren't humans. Flies have about a 24 hour life span. Why don't we? Cause we're not flies. See my drift?
The problem is that we still rely on hardware! Software is limitless without hardware, but the stupid hardware people insit on limiting our abilities! If we didn't have hardware, the software would be easy to fix, just patch it and upload the new version!
So whats new? Digital clocks have never had any moving parts. (Ok, maybe if you count the quartz crystal, or MAYBE the buttons, but really now...)
You don't need a separate format for surround (unless you are itching to waste drive space and need the absolute highest quality possible). I have a great MP3 which is Pro Logic encoded, I hook my computer up to my stereo, which has a Pro Logic decoder, via a standard stereo 3.5mm mini jack -> RCA and my stereo decodes it just fine. Damn nice surround effects at that.
Misread the title as Firefox not Thunderbird and was wondering how I missed seeing the wormhole which sent me back in time.
...you know, this could actually prove benificial... To fund all this crap that our tax dollars can't nearly cover, they should let the 18 year olds get drunk and use the robots in fights. (ala Robot Wars) Hell, I'd pay to whatch a battle between two robots if they were both controlled by drunk people and had machine guns on them!
Afganistan - Yes ...or even better, just send lots of grenades down into the caves!
Iraq - No
18 - Only if we start letting them drink beer also.
1. Not all games have demos
2. Demos sometimes restrict things that are essential to figuring out if it's good or not.
3. Demos sometimes simply over-restrict and don't give you a good feel at all.
4. Some demos don't work. (A recent example of this for me was Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 - Demo would crash my entire system (gotta love Windows!) every time I tried to start it up - bought the actual game and it works flawlessly!)
Here's my point of view on the whole matter: :-O) I would do so to play it as an "extended demo" pretty much. I pirated plenty of games which quite simply, sucked ass, and I deleted off my computer within the week, if not the same day. The few games that were good I just added to the list of games that I needed to buy. I understand that companies need to make money, and that they spend money on making the games that I enjoy. That is why I support then, WHEN they make a good game. I'm not about to buy a piece of crap game. Why? Because then the company see's that I bought it, assumes that I liked it, and decides to make more piece of crap games.
I'm 19. That means I'm also pretty much broke. Before I buy a game, I want to make sure it's damn worth my money. When I would pirate a game (I don't anymore - not enough time to even play legal games
As far as pirates go who simply pirate so they don't have to pay for the game, that's bad, but I see no problem with making an informed decision before buying a product.
Comon, all of us here at Slashdot should know this. Rule #1 of hacking: He who has access to the physical device, controls the device. It would be all too easy to crack the case of one of these things and change the crystal so that instead of running off of who-knows-what frequency it's now controlled with a 72MHz RC controller! Personally, I don't want these things going into battle for us. We're gonna spend billions on these things and some kid somewhere is gonna come up with an 80 cent way to turn it against us. (Think along the lines of "drawing a circle around the circumference with a pernament marker".)
For all you know, the pilot flying your 747 could be taking naps. The average amount of time a pilot actually flies the plane these days is around 30 minutes, regardless of actual flight time. Autopilot does the rest! :-)
The only reason we still have pilots is because 1. if something does go wrong, they can handle it better than a computer. (Although that will probably become false in the near future) And 2. people would freak out if it were just a computer flying the plane. They want to believe that an actual person is in control.
What about when the person is convinced that the lie is real? (ie: Bush convinced that Iraq possesed WMD.) That would also be an interesting study.
With NASA's luck, 1 of 2 things will happen:
1. It will hit the comet but they will have done the calculations wrong (because they forgot to convert centimeters to inches) and it will re-direct the comet on a collision course with the Earth.
2. They will hit the comet, but at the moment it hits and they are supposed to be observing it, they will see a hot girl changing in the house next to the observatory and aim thier telescopes there.
Alright mods, do your worst!
...actually the ultimate energy source for the Earth is the sun, it's just that we haven't figured out an effecient enough way to harvest it's energy. (Solor panels suck in comparison to the potential energy in the sun!)
Does is stand to reason that if the record companies sue us when they are loosing money, that we should be sueing them when they are getting money?
Quick! Find a frivilous lawsuit to jump aboard!
...musta cheated... he must just memorize his 13th power tables!
(Oooh! I recognize that number! It's blah^13!!!!)
...I hope the EFF get's involved with this one and Google doesn't have to spend a penny on the case. That's right. Google has the money to defend themselves, and the EFF doesn't really have the money, but this is SO STUPID that I could probably defend Google successfully. (As long as I get a judge/jury with half a brain in thier heads. Unfortunatly, that is fairly hard these days.) But really, the EFF needs to get involved in this one, alongside Google. That way, things like this won't even have a chance of arising in the future. (This pr0n guy should be sued for stupidity!)
...Bush said that he wanted to get rid of fivilous lawsuits. Here's his chance to do SOMETHING right!
(No, I didn't RTFA - I'm a Slashdotter!)