Yes, exactly. It's also in nearly the same place in Excel.
Tools -> Autocorrect Options -> Auto Format As You Type -> Internet and network paths with hyperlinks
IMO, the grandparent doesn't deserve the +5 score since it's not informative nor insightful. Both tools have the same issue and it's equally easy to disable in both. This is more a case of careysub complaining because he or she does not want to learn their tools.
Furthermore, I have found Excel to be a nightmare in its insistence on being "clever" and knowing better than me what is or should be in my document: insistently turning text that it thinks looks like email and web addresses into live links (something I have never wanted in my life)
To be fair, OpenOffice does this as well. Two weeks ago I was creating a spreadsheet of contact information. Every time I entered an email address, Calc would turn the email address into a link, change the background color to grey, and then would not let me edit the address in the formula field. Don't believe me? Open Calc and enter "address@example.com" in a field, then hit return. The "lightbulb" helper (OO's Clippy) appears in the bottom right to tell me that "An URL has been detected and a hyperlink attribute has been set".
The content blocker doesn't autoupdate the block list like AdBlock Plus does. With AdBlock Plus you install it and then forget about it. The maintenance cost is higher with Opera as you have to find a block list to download and install, and then update it manually to keep current.
First, the application was filed in 1990, so prior art is going to be harder to come by than you might think.
I doubt that. There were plenty of video games on the Amiga in the mid to late 1980s that had buttons that would change when the pointer was over them.
You are reading Slashdot and really have no idea what Twitter is?
That's correct. The only time I've noticed it mentioned outside of a web site is once or twice during an NPR story. Even then they don't explain what it is. I guess if it's mentioned on NPR then it's not just a computer geek thing.
I'm only interested in approximately 30% of the stories here (databases, Java, and Perl, plus a few other things) so that's usually all that I read. I only read this story because I have Google stock via a technology fund in my 401k, and I like to keep up with the things they do. I didn't know there were any URL shortening services other than tinyurl. I don't see why the net would need more than one, or would even need one in the first place. Shortening a URL seems quite pointless.
Even if you are against Twitter, or social media in general, no need to be elitist about it.
I agree. I waded into one of the Facebook related stories (I believe it was about the open source replacement) and there were a lot of posts about how people had deleted their accounts and why "you should delete yours too, right now!" They all seemed so insistent on telling others what to do. If people want to do something then let them do it. They obviously get some value out of the site or else they wouldn't expend the effort to use it.
I don't really under stand what "social media" is so I don't have a horse in this race. I signed up for MySpace once because a bunch of musicians I met at a music conference were talking about it. I didn't get it. There were only profile pages and no content. I assumed that it was an online dating site since it was asking me things such as if I'm single or married and what my sexual orientation was. I might have tried Facebook but at the time they required a.edu address. When I graduated from college the students did not have email addresses and the term email had not yet entered the public consciousness. 300 baud BBS dialup was just starting to catch on. So, in any case, when I hear the term "social media" I think "online dating." It seems like a great thing for single kids. My wife probably wouldn't be pleased if I signed up for one of those sites.:-)
I don't use it, but obviously other people do.
That statement is applicable to anything, so I'm not sure what your point is.
No, although I've started to see them mentioned all the time in the last six months or so. I assume they are another Facebook-type site but I don't care enough to find out.
Maybe newspaper articles should cite their sources and have a list of references at the end like academic papers do. That way at least readers or other interested parties could independently verify the facts in the article.
I know it means Long-Term Evolution, but what are the practical benefits? I read the wikipedia article but, not being a telecom engineer, I don't understand much of it. What benefits will an LTE phone provide over existing phones?
I find this to be Perl's killer feature. I've rarely encountered a situation where there wasn't a module to make something easier for facilitate interfacing with something.
Since Windows 7 Home Premium retains for $199.99 it obviously has to run Linux otherwise it would be a $400 PC.
Assuming that either (1) your time futzing with Linux is worth nothing or (2) whatever Linux distro you use "just works" with zero futzing around. Option #2 isn't guaranteed but it is more likely if you can pick and choose specific components as they are doing here.
And no one pays retail. Win7 Home Premium can be bought for $150.
Am I the only one that opens up tabs to read the content and then closes the tab after doing so?
No, you're not. I do that too.
I don't really see why someone would have like 20+ tabs constantly just sitting open.
I feel the same way, not only about tabs but about programs on the computer. When I am done with a program, I close it. For example, once I finish reading Slashdot today, I'll close my browser and not open it again until I need to go to another web page later, even if "later" is only five or ten minutes from now. It's easier for me to get things out of the way if I'm not using them so there's less visual noise to sort through, be they tabs or entire programs.
Microsoft Windows is really so much harder to use than Ubuntu. Everything on Ubuntu just works, and you have to fuss with windows to get it to do what you want, keep it from getting a virus, hunt all over the web to get software updates.....
Given my experience, I have to disagree with your comment. I just switched to Windows 7 after two years of using both Ubuntu and Debian and I'm much happier on Windows. There were a handful of things in Linux that just weren't working correctly for me. After two years, I just couldn't take it any more, spent the money for Windows 7 and made the switch. It wasn't that much of a learning curve (I had used XP in the past but only Linux since then) and it helped that I could still run all the applications that I ran on Linux (Firefox, OpenOffice, VLC, Calibre). Hell, I was able to copy over my Firefox profile and it "just worked," extensions and all.
Linux was just too expensive for me. I spent hundreds of hours filing bug reports, responding to developers, testing, documenting, writing and submitting patches, etcetera ad nauseum. If those had been billable hours, I would have earned a small fortune. In the end it was far cheaper to spend $150 on Windows and be done with it so that's what I did. I'll give Linux another look in a few years and see if it's shaped up, but for now my needs are met and it was worth the price.
I think the only reason Dell does this is because Windows is setup like a toll booth where you have to pay extra to get it to do anything useful or keep it running.
There is enough free software (both libre and gratis) available on Windows that one doesn't have to spend any extra money.
OSI doesn't own a trademark on "Open Source" either and if they did, it would probably be ruled generic.
It's unlikely that it would be ruled generic. A friend of mine trademarked the term "Open Patent" and had no problem with seeing it through to completion. He even did it on his own without the assistance of a lawyer (although it took him a few years to complete). OSI got bad advice from a lawyer on the trademark issue and Bruce Perens has said as much.
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It's a good thing IPv4's address space is 32-bit. Without that limitation we'd never move to IPv6 and get all of the other benefits that it offers.
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Yes, exactly. It's also in nearly the same place in Excel.
Tools -> Autocorrect Options -> Auto Format As You Type -> Internet and network paths with hyperlinks
IMO, the grandparent doesn't deserve the +5 score since it's not informative nor insightful. Both tools have the same issue and it's equally easy to disable in both. This is more a case of careysub complaining because he or she does not want to learn their tools.
Aha! So you are to blame! Get him, boys!
To be fair, OpenOffice does this as well. Two weeks ago I was creating a spreadsheet of contact information. Every time I entered an email address, Calc would turn the email address into a link, change the background color to grey, and then would not let me edit the address in the formula field. Don't believe me? Open Calc and enter "address@example.com" in a field, then hit return. The "lightbulb" helper (OO's Clippy) appears in the bottom right to tell me that "An URL has been detected and a hyperlink attribute has been set".
The content blocker doesn't autoupdate the block list like AdBlock Plus does. With AdBlock Plus you install it and then forget about it. The maintenance cost is higher with Opera as you have to find a block list to download and install, and then update it manually to keep current.
I doubt that. There were plenty of video games on the Amiga in the mid to late 1980s that had buttons that would change when the pointer was over them.
That's correct. The only time I've noticed it mentioned outside of a web site is once or twice during an NPR story. Even then they don't explain what it is. I guess if it's mentioned on NPR then it's not just a computer geek thing.
I'm only interested in approximately 30% of the stories here (databases, Java, and Perl, plus a few other things) so that's usually all that I read. I only read this story because I have Google stock via a technology fund in my 401k, and I like to keep up with the things they do. I didn't know there were any URL shortening services other than tinyurl. I don't see why the net would need more than one, or would even need one in the first place. Shortening a URL seems quite pointless.
I agree. I waded into one of the Facebook related stories (I believe it was about the open source replacement) and there were a lot of posts about how people had deleted their accounts and why "you should delete yours too, right now!" They all seemed so insistent on telling others what to do. If people want to do something then let them do it. They obviously get some value out of the site or else they wouldn't expend the effort to use it.
I don't really under stand what "social media" is so I don't have a horse in this race. I signed up for MySpace once because a bunch of musicians I met at a music conference were talking about it. I didn't get it. There were only profile pages and no content. I assumed that it was an online dating site since it was asking me things such as if I'm single or married and what my sexual orientation was. I might have tried Facebook but at the time they required a .edu address. When I graduated from college the students did not have email addresses and the term email had not yet entered the public consciousness. 300 baud BBS dialup was just starting to catch on. So, in any case, when I hear the term "social media" I think "online dating." It seems like a great thing for single kids. My wife probably wouldn't be pleased if I signed up for one of those sites. :-)
That statement is applicable to anything, so I'm not sure what your point is.
No, although I've started to see them mentioned all the time in the last six months or so. I assume they are another Facebook-type site but I don't care enough to find out.
Is Slashdot trying to turn into CNN now? This isn't news for nerds.
I didn't see anything in there about him participating in the wedding.
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Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
I didn't say that the author needs to verify their source. They merely need to list them. They got that $200 billion figure from somewhere. Cite it.
Maybe newspaper articles should cite their sources and have a list of references at the end like academic papers do. That way at least readers or other interested parties could independently verify the facts in the article.
I know it means Long-Term Evolution, but what are the practical benefits? I read the wikipedia article but, not being a telecom engineer, I don't understand much of it. What benefits will an LTE phone provide over existing phones?
What is an "LTE" phone? Google is not helping me find an answer.
Does it come with the bigger GBs?
I find this to be Perl's killer feature. I've rarely encountered a situation where there wasn't a module to make something easier for facilitate interfacing with something.
BetterPrivacy also works great for me on Ubuntu.
Except in this case, Oracle is now the manufacturer. It's wholly appropriate to change the label.
How do you know that? What other militaries have you served in to which you can compare your experience and declare one to be the best?
Assuming that either (1) your time futzing with Linux is worth nothing or (2) whatever Linux distro you use "just works" with zero futzing around. Option #2 isn't guaranteed but it is more likely if you can pick and choose specific components as they are doing here.
And no one pays retail. Win7 Home Premium can be bought for $150.
No, you're not. I do that too.
I feel the same way, not only about tabs but about programs on the computer. When I am done with a program, I close it. For example, once I finish reading Slashdot today, I'll close my browser and not open it again until I need to go to another web page later, even if "later" is only five or ten minutes from now. It's easier for me to get things out of the way if I'm not using them so there's less visual noise to sort through, be they tabs or entire programs.
Given my experience, I have to disagree with your comment. I just switched to Windows 7 after two years of using both Ubuntu and Debian and I'm much happier on Windows. There were a handful of things in Linux that just weren't working correctly for me. After two years, I just couldn't take it any more, spent the money for Windows 7 and made the switch. It wasn't that much of a learning curve (I had used XP in the past but only Linux since then) and it helped that I could still run all the applications that I ran on Linux (Firefox, OpenOffice, VLC, Calibre). Hell, I was able to copy over my Firefox profile and it "just worked," extensions and all.
Linux was just too expensive for me. I spent hundreds of hours filing bug reports, responding to developers, testing, documenting, writing and submitting patches, etcetera ad nauseum. If those had been billable hours, I would have earned a small fortune. In the end it was far cheaper to spend $150 on Windows and be done with it so that's what I did. I'll give Linux another look in a few years and see if it's shaped up, but for now my needs are met and it was worth the price.
There is enough free software (both libre and gratis) available on Windows that one doesn't have to spend any extra money.
It's unlikely that it would be ruled generic. A friend of mine trademarked the term "Open Patent" and had no problem with seeing it through to completion. He even did it on his own without the assistance of a lawyer (although it took him a few years to complete). OSI got bad advice from a lawyer on the trademark issue and Bruce Perens has said as much.