I saw Coca-Cola Blech on MSNBC like a week ago. Guess/. isn't too quick on the uptake with meatspace things that don't involve any cyberspace issues at all.
btw, Countdown with Keith Olberman is the best news show, period.
So while I understand the motivation behind DRM, the RIAA lawsuits and the BSA's bullshit arguments, they really have to understand that they are dissing their own customers to a degree that no other business on Earth would dare. Something is going to break, eventually, and it will most likely be their way of doing business.
Have you tried it since 8.0? 8.x represents a vast improvement over the entire 7.x line. I stopped using Opera when 7 came out. I couldn't stand it, and switched fully to Mozilla. I also can't stand Firefox, but love Mozilla. It's the little things...and I don't have nearly as many problems with Mozilla (read: -any-) as Firefox users complain about.
The point, though, is despite the idiot's lack of signaling, it's fairly easy to predict what he'll do. I can see where he's going, what's ahead of him, and what his escape routes are or are likely to be. Speed Racer doesn't bother me. It's Grampa in the clunker I'm worried about. He's likely to do something unexpected, or get hit by Mister Speed Racer, because Speed doesn't expect to find Grampa in his path. Or worse, Speed expects Grampa to get out of the way.
Yup. It's not the fast drivers that are dangerous. They are very predictable and easy to avoid.
It's the slowpokes. The kind that don't signal, change lanes for no reason, and never drive over--and most often, drive under--the speed limit. Those are the drivers I fear. They're accidents waiting to happen.
The safest thing you can do on the road is to be predictable. To that end, I signal religiously, keep my speed as constant as possible, and avoid changing lanes unless necessary. I might cut you off, but dammit, you will have ample warning.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've long wished I could just bump cars out of my way with impunity, like I do in video games. It's so tempting to just shove that jackass in the drive thru that can't decide what he want outta my way so I can order.
I'll have to give it a shot next time I have time to sit and tweak my linux box's yet-mostly-unused gui.
No, but it's easy to implement so why not? Having different backgrounds for different desktops gives me one more visual clue to where I left my work.
I think there's a plug in for it.
Being able to slide programs off to the side without messing with a pager is very nice when it does not backfire often. Being able to move from one desktop to another quickly by mousing makes your desktop space more continuous feeling.
I -think- VirtuaWin may have this already--I haven't used it in a while, been using bblean on my Windows machine. bblean has multiple desktops, so no need for virtuawin. VirtuaWin can switch desktops (don't know about dragging apps tho) by mousing as well, with or without a hotkey held down. I used to use shift, then move the mouse to the edge. It prevented any accidental switching.
If you mean virtual desktops as in those provided by VirtuaWin for windows or the pager applet that's in practically every Linux desktop environment, then yeah, those are useful.
That thing in E16, on the other hand, where you move the mouse to the edge and suddenly you get another desktop (without changing the pager..)... that's annoying as hell. I forgot what it was called. I disabled it as soon as I figured out which feature was causing that.:P
VirtuaWin, btw, is stable, fast, and small. It may not offer fancy things like changing wallpapers on the other desktops, but is that really necessary? And I think there may be a plugin for that anyway...
You know, I never have to do that with Mozilla. In fact, 99% of the problems I see Firefox users complain about, I never experience with Mozilla. Hell, I leave Mozilla open for days on end, never bothering to close it when I go to work/sleep/eat/whatever. And that's on Windows, too--my linux box is too slow to tolerably run a gui (though lately, doing rather well with enlightenment, might have to try again..), in case you're wondering.
Hmm. I know what ssh is. I know what port 25 is for. I run a linux box at home. I'm over 18, but I don't need training on dealing with customers without sounding like an arrogant kid.
Doh! And I just burned my remaining mod points on that dating story. I always called XP eXtra Pathetic or Emoticon OS: "Emoticon" because "XP" isn't a smile, so Smiley OS would be kinda...misleading.
Gee, I guess we know someone is in **A's pockets. Still, most (all) of these lawsuits are settled out of court. The victims will get screwed harder, but will most likely not be going to jail.
I haven't tried Linspire (though I did grab the torrent while it was free) but of the distros I've tried in my attempts to move to Linux, Mandrake/Mandriva/whatever they call it now takes the crown of "Best Linux for Windows users" in my opinion.
After drake I moved on to Deb, unfortunately on a slower machine, but a machine I could dedicate to Linux instead of flipping back to Windows to play games when friends are over. I do agree that Deb is definitely not for newbs. Mandrake, for the most part, just worked. Deb took some work.
Shit, I don't even block *cookies*.... but I do block most regular ads. If an image ad gets through, eh, no big deal... flash ads beware, however. I say, let 'em make their half penny (or less) off the ad impression--if they even get that. Just so long as it doesn't get in my way. If it does, no future impressions for you!
I just have to say: thank you for that link. It gave me a good laugh on a long and boring day at work. The fox brown express train jumped on the lazy red dog indeed.
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I saw Coca-Cola Blech on MSNBC like a week ago. Guess /. isn't too quick on the uptake with meatspace things that don't involve any cyberspace issues at all.
btw, Countdown with Keith Olberman is the best news show, period.
QFT.
Have you tried it since 8.0? 8.x represents a vast improvement over the entire 7.x line. I stopped using Opera when 7 came out. I couldn't stand it, and switched fully to Mozilla. I also can't stand Firefox, but love Mozilla. It's the little things...and I don't have nearly as many problems with Mozilla (read: -any-) as Firefox users complain about.
You can already solve that problem by switching to Mozilla. ;)
The point, though, is despite the idiot's lack of signaling, it's fairly easy to predict what he'll do. I can see where he's going, what's ahead of him, and what his escape routes are or are likely to be. Speed Racer doesn't bother me. It's Grampa in the clunker I'm worried about. He's likely to do something unexpected, or get hit by Mister Speed Racer, because Speed doesn't expect to find Grampa in his path. Or worse, Speed expects Grampa to get out of the way.
Yup. It's not the fast drivers that are dangerous. They are very predictable and easy to avoid.
It's the slowpokes. The kind that don't signal, change lanes for no reason, and never drive over--and most often, drive under--the speed limit. Those are the drivers I fear. They're accidents waiting to happen.
The safest thing you can do on the road is to be predictable. To that end, I signal religiously, keep my speed as constant as possible, and avoid changing lanes unless necessary. I might cut you off, but dammit, you will have ample warning.
Bathe more often, maybe? ;)
They also never mention that the parent browser, Mozilla, is much less annoying, just as fast, and actually has a complete preferences dialog! ;)
I don't know about anyone else, but I've long wished I could just bump cars out of my way with impunity, like I do in video games. It's so tempting to just shove that jackass in the drive thru that can't decide what he want outta my way so I can order.
reasonably? Shit dude, WoW runs "reasonably" on a nerfed PNY GF4 MX 440 with 64MB.
.ini files anyone? ;)
I'll have to give it a shot next time I have time to sit and tweak my linux box's yet-mostly-unused gui.
No, but it's easy to implement so why not? Having different backgrounds for different desktops gives me one more visual clue to where I left my work.
I think there's a plug in for it.
Being able to slide programs off to the side without messing with a pager is very nice when it does not backfire often. Being able to move from one desktop to another quickly by mousing makes your desktop space more continuous feeling.
I -think- VirtuaWin may have this already--I haven't used it in a while, been using bblean on my Windows machine. bblean has multiple desktops, so no need for virtuawin. VirtuaWin can switch desktops (don't know about dragging apps tho) by mousing as well, with or without a hotkey held down. I used to use shift, then move the mouse to the edge. It prevented any accidental switching.
If you mean virtual desktops as in those provided by VirtuaWin for windows or the pager applet that's in practically every Linux desktop environment, then yeah, those are useful. :P
That thing in E16, on the other hand, where you move the mouse to the edge and suddenly you get another desktop (without changing the pager..)... that's annoying as hell. I forgot what it was called. I disabled it as soon as I figured out which feature was causing that.
VirtuaWin, btw, is stable, fast, and small. It may not offer fancy things like changing wallpapers on the other desktops, but is that really necessary? And I think there may be a plugin for that anyway...
You know, I never have to do that with Mozilla. In fact, 99% of the problems I see Firefox users complain about, I never experience with Mozilla. Hell, I leave Mozilla open for days on end, never bothering to close it when I go to work/sleep/eat/whatever. And that's on Windows, too--my linux box is too slow to tolerably run a gui (though lately, doing rather well with enlightenment, might have to try again..), in case you're wondering.
Glad I switched back to Mozilla after Firebird...
Hmm. I know what ssh is. I know what port 25 is for. I run a linux box at home. I'm over 18, but I don't need training on dealing with customers without sounding like an arrogant kid.
Can I telecommute?
Doh! And I just burned my remaining mod points on that dating story. I always called XP eXtra Pathetic or Emoticon OS: "Emoticon" because "XP" isn't a smile, so Smiley OS would be kinda...misleading.
No Brainer Question: which would you rather have--Trusted Computing or cheaters in games? Yeah, thought so.
Evidently, you can. :^(
...I didn't know they had these kinds of bleeding hearts there...
Yes, in China!
Gee, I guess we know someone is in **A's pockets. Still, most (all) of these lawsuits are settled out of court. The victims will get screwed harder, but will most likely not be going to jail.
That was horrible. Oi.
You speak the truth. I played both, and remember thinking to myself, these two are so similar it's scarey! The devs of doom3 MUST have been SS2 fans.
I haven't tried Linspire (though I did grab the torrent while it was free) but of the distros I've tried in my attempts to move to Linux, Mandrake/Mandriva/whatever they call it now takes the crown of "Best Linux for Windows users" in my opinion.
After drake I moved on to Deb, unfortunately on a slower machine, but a machine I could dedicate to Linux instead of flipping back to Windows to play games when friends are over. I do agree that Deb is definitely not for newbs. Mandrake, for the most part, just worked. Deb took some work.
It probably didn't. ;)
Shit, I don't even block *cookies*.... but I do block most regular ads. If an image ad gets through, eh, no big deal... flash ads beware, however. I say, let 'em make their half penny (or less) off the ad impression--if they even get that. Just so long as it doesn't get in my way. If it does, no future impressions for you!
I just have to say: thank you for that link. It gave me a good laugh on a long and boring day at work. The fox brown express train jumped on the lazy red dog indeed.