Two guys go to do a presentation. One assumes the other will have the material. They get there, and neither have it. They both look like asses, at least to whoever they were supposed to present to. See?
Consider my passwords changed;) Actually, I think I only used a quote for a password once: and I used the whole thing, replaced a number with its numeral, and sprinkled in a few caps for good measure. It made for a nice long password.
Really? When I played WoW, I thought damn, I wish they had taken some hints from Earth & Beyond! To say that SE should've learned something from WoW, well, that just makes me re-consider trying FFXI
Er, MBNA already merged with Bank of America, as of this year. I'm gonna have to sign up for one of those cards. Auto-generated temporary card numbers sound pretty cool, and I completely forgot to look into that kind of thing when I got a new credit card recently.
"serious torrenting will still be done with Azureus"
So, you seed much? If not, why not uTorrent? I use Azureus because the seeding priority system in it is far superior to any other client, and I seed a lot. Prioritization is a must for my ~384kbps upstream.
Mozilla/Seamonkey doesn't exhibit any of the runaway memory usage that Firefox does either.;)
Unless I spend hours playing FlashTrek: Broken Mirror, that is.
I've personally never met anyone for whom Windows 98 Just Works
Hi, nice to meet you. Win98SE "Just Works" for me. These days it is getting more difficult to run it on newer hardware, what with driver support drying up. However, if I were to ever install a Windows OS on older hardware such as the ancient emachine I have that currently runs Debian, I would choose 98SE. Hell, four years ago 98SE was the primary OS in my household, with Win 2k Server claiming one system and 98SE the other four. Now, I'm at 50/50 between 2k and 98, plus one Deb. On one 98 box, all newer versions of Windows would actually lock up after a while (XP locked during install, too). The other is an old laptop that can't do anything newer, and is rarely used anyway.
The registry just seems to be a bad idea in general. It's a glorified ini file acting as a central repository for system settings, file associations, program settings, hardware and driver information, and probably a few other things that I can't remember off the top of my head.
If there's one good thing about it, though, it's that it strikes fear in the hearts of the average user who might be so bold as to mess with it. Some do anyway and get burned. Some stay away. As for the rest of what it does, it'd be better to have it decentralized. Then maybe those bold fools will only break part of something, rather than all of windows.
And whoever thought up the idea of storing application settings in it should be shot.
After reading this, I am so very glad I have an Audiovox brick phone. It doesn't even have any games. The only "extra" that I can think of off the top of my head (I don't use it very much, so I forget!) is voice activated dialing, which I never use anyway. I've programmed a couple voice entries, but never bothered using them. Holding down the '4' button or whichever I'm trying to call is easier.
Not everyone needs fancy photo manipulation. Some people just need a piece of software that can resize, crop, convert between formats, change color depth, browse directories of thumbnails, etc. and Paint Shop Pro does that very well
In that case, have they heard of Irfanview (freeware)? Or heck, have they added even that level of image editing to ACDSee (shareware) yet? I haven't used ACDSee in years, but Irfanview has had these features for a long time, and an easy UI (well, to me anyway, and I'm the one who prefers Seamonkey to Firefox for its UI).
How did you, as a slashdotter and presumably a relatively computer-savvy geek, end up with spyware? Deliberate infection in the name of testing? Or was it just Ad-Aware fud?
Which will lead to one of two things: outcry for MS to disable this, or outcry against software vendors who are lazy. Now, which do you think is more likely?
Admittedly I've never used a razor of the type you describe, if indeed you and I are thinking of the same thing, but I will admit that I am utterly hooked on the mach 3. They sent it to me, for free, on my 18th birthday. Hell, they even sent two--one to my mother's house, one to my dad's, just to make sure they got me. Now I'm shelling out for the blades... First hit's free, I guess?;)
I beg to differ. I'll never go back to electric. The Gilette Mach 3 (the original one that started this whole mess) razor I have is better than any electric, and a damn sight better than those crappy cheap-o razors.
This is slashdot - to disagree is to get modded 'Troll'
On my systems, Mozilla and Seamonkey have always performed as well as, if not better than, Firefox. Firebird and Phoenix were faster, Phoenix moreso. Phoenix reminded me of Opera 3 -- go super fast, go splat once in a while (either by rendering funky, or crashing).
Seamonkey though uses Gecko 1.8, which even with the suite wrapped around it, is damn snappy. K-Meleon uses (or used to) use the 1.8 engine. It's wicked fast. I prefer Seamonkey, myself.
Thanks for the freak. My life is now complete, I can die without regret
But seriously, if you weren't a rabid, foaming at the mouth fanboi, you'd recognize what's happening to Firefox, and that I am absolutely not after it to become loaded with "anal retentive geek features." I am not for it to become loaded with features at all. I'd like to see some stripped out, in fact. Although I will admit recent version of Firefox have been 'less annoying' to me, I still don't like where it's heading.
What I want is enough completion in the preferences dialog to not have to go to about:config. Does that sound like a geeky desire to you? I don't mind if they make it a toggle so that others can have their simple, cutesy version. I just want to be able to access it. What I want is a clean (free of cuteness) and comprehensive interface.
That, and I want download progress windows back, instead of the download manager.
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So THAT's why I've been getting calls from collection agencies!
Two guys go to do a presentation. One assumes the other will have the material. They get there, and neither have it. They both look like asses, at least to whoever they were supposed to present to. See?
Consider my passwords changed ;) Actually, I think I only used a quote for a password once: and I used the whole thing, replaced a number with its numeral, and sprinkled in a few caps for good measure. It made for a nice long password.
I can't speak to the iRiver, but, have you ever owned a Creative player? The iPod IS better!
Really? When I played WoW, I thought damn, I wish they had taken some hints from Earth & Beyond! To say that SE should've learned something from WoW, well, that just makes me re-consider trying FFXI
Er, MBNA already merged with Bank of America, as of this year. I'm gonna have to sign up for one of those cards. Auto-generated temporary card numbers sound pretty cool, and I completely forgot to look into that kind of thing when I got a new credit card recently.
"We want Firefox 1.1 and Mozilla 1.8!!!"
:)
Seamonkey, K-Meleon. Gecko 1.8.
"serious torrenting will still be done with Azureus"
So, you seed much? If not, why not uTorrent? I use Azureus because the seeding priority system in it is far superior to any other client, and I seed a lot. Prioritization is a must for my ~384kbps upstream.
Mozilla/Seamonkey doesn't exhibit any of the runaway memory usage that Firefox does either. ;)
Unless I spend hours playing FlashTrek: Broken Mirror, that is.
Eh, it shows at least someone in the organization has a few brain cells to rub together. :)
No, he's saying you are. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
Oh no, he spelled things right, you just didn't get it. ;)
I've personally never met anyone for whom Windows 98 Just Works
Hi, nice to meet you. Win98SE "Just Works" for me. These days it is getting more difficult to run it on newer hardware, what with driver support drying up. However, if I were to ever install a Windows OS on older hardware such as the ancient emachine I have that currently runs Debian, I would choose 98SE. Hell, four years ago 98SE was the primary OS in my household, with Win 2k Server claiming one system and 98SE the other four. Now, I'm at 50/50 between 2k and 98, plus one Deb. On one 98 box, all newer versions of Windows would actually lock up after a while (XP locked during install, too). The other is an old laptop that can't do anything newer, and is rarely used anyway.
The registry just seems to be a bad idea in general. It's a glorified ini file acting as a central repository for system settings, file associations, program settings, hardware and driver information, and probably a few other things that I can't remember off the top of my head.
If there's one good thing about it, though, it's that it strikes fear in the hearts of the average user who might be so bold as to mess with it. Some do anyway and get burned. Some stay away. As for the rest of what it does, it'd be better to have it decentralized. Then maybe those bold fools will only break part of something, rather than all of windows.
And whoever thought up the idea of storing application settings in it should be shot.
Sure they do. A troll is whoever holds an opinion that they find offensive.
After reading this, I am so very glad I have an Audiovox brick phone. It doesn't even have any games. The only "extra" that I can think of off the top of my head (I don't use it very much, so I forget!) is voice activated dialing, which I never use anyway. I've programmed a couple voice entries, but never bothered using them. Holding down the '4' button or whichever I'm trying to call is easier.
Not everyone needs fancy photo manipulation. Some people just need a piece of software that can resize, crop, convert between formats, change color depth, browse directories of thumbnails, etc. and Paint Shop Pro does that very well
In that case, have they heard of Irfanview (freeware)? Or heck, have they added even that level of image editing to ACDSee (shareware) yet? I haven't used ACDSee in years, but Irfanview has had these features for a long time, and an easy UI (well, to me anyway, and I'm the one who prefers Seamonkey to Firefox for its UI).
How did you, as a slashdotter and presumably a relatively computer-savvy geek, end up with spyware? Deliberate infection in the name of testing? Or was it just Ad-Aware fud?
Which will lead to one of two things: outcry for MS to disable this, or outcry against software vendors who are lazy. Now, which do you think is more likely?
Admittedly I've never used a razor of the type you describe, if indeed you and I are thinking of the same thing, but I will admit that I am utterly hooked on the mach 3. They sent it to me, for free, on my 18th birthday. Hell, they even sent two--one to my mother's house, one to my dad's, just to make sure they got me. Now I'm shelling out for the blades... First hit's free, I guess? ;)
I beg to differ. I'll never go back to electric. The Gilette Mach 3 (the original one that started this whole mess) razor I have is better than any electric, and a damn sight better than those crappy cheap-o razors.
:p
You haven't tried one, have you?
However, if you post against the wrong thing, you get labelled troll.
This is slashdot - to disagree is to get modded 'Troll'
On my systems, Mozilla and Seamonkey have always performed as well as, if not better than, Firefox. Firebird and Phoenix were faster, Phoenix moreso. Phoenix reminded me of Opera 3 -- go super fast, go splat once in a while (either by rendering funky, or crashing).
Seamonkey though uses Gecko 1.8, which even with the suite wrapped around it, is damn snappy. K-Meleon uses (or used to) use the 1.8 engine. It's wicked fast. I prefer Seamonkey, myself.
Thanks for the freak. My life is now complete, I can die without regret
But seriously, if you weren't a rabid, foaming at the mouth fanboi, you'd recognize what's happening to Firefox, and that I am absolutely not after it to become loaded with "anal retentive geek features." I am not for it to become loaded with features at all. I'd like to see some stripped out, in fact. Although I will admit recent version of Firefox have been 'less annoying' to me, I still don't like where it's heading.
What I want is enough completion in the preferences dialog to not have to go to about:config. Does that sound like a geeky desire to you? I don't mind if they make it a toggle so that others can have their simple, cutesy version. I just want to be able to access it. What I want is a clean (free of cuteness) and comprehensive interface.
That, and I want download progress windows back, instead of the download manager.
what, no +1 Python (Monty) reference mod? :)