Firefox ALREADY HAD a popup blocker. What they borrowed from Microsoft was the top bar that allowed you to unblock a specific popup on runtime. Sometimes good ideas CALL to be borrowed (and thank God this one wasn't patented!)
Apparently it also blocks WANTED popups, even if you whitelist them.
From the blog:
Of *course* it blocks wanted popups, that's the whole point. Popup pushers have started hitchiking on the events we use to determine "wantedness". This extension is an experiment to see which is worse, the popups that are leaking through the current Firefox default settings, or not getting "wanted" popups. Obviously this will greatly depend on which sites you tend to visit so the ultimate result will probably be some sort of UI where people can more easily adjust the blocking level.
Back to the drawing board, though, on opening the popup from the infobar. Posted by: Dan Veditz on March 31, 2005 11:11 PM
Maybe this explains the Anime version of the Powerpuff Girls that has been spotted? Maybe CN is trying to get a presence in Japan?
Hmm I don't think so.
a) Rowdy is a fan. And he included some Nickelodeon characters too.
b) The powerpuff girls were actually a parody of anime girls. And the related Show, dexter's lab, also makes fun of Mechs. And MEGAS XLR made fun of the following Anime Series: Voltron, Galaxy Express 999, Sailor Moon, Power Rangers, G-Force, need I say more?:P
c) I prefer the much more soffisticated Saber Marionette J than the powerpuff girls. (out of topic, but hey this is slashdot:P )
In conclusion, Cartoon Network is NOT trying to get a presence in Japan. They have just acknowledged the ever-increasing popularity of Anime in the western hemisphere.
And if you use the FlashBlock extension, nothing is loaded automatically, you have to click the button to enable a specific animation, nothing to fear.
WHich gets EXHAUSTING after watching strongbad every week! I'd rather have the ADBLOCK extension and choose which sites NOT to load flash from.
Yes, but don't forget that Black Holes were PREDICTED to exist, in theory, before some of the (probable) black holes were actually measured by radiotelescopes (I says measured and not "seen").
What I'd like to see is a physical equation saying that the theoretical predictions on black holes are WRONG.
If he can't prove with equations that Black Holes don't exist, then his theory is flawed. Of course, he could prove that dark energy stars DO exist. But from that to saying that ALL black holes don't...
If Novell turns into a huge Linux tech-support company, I bet they'll earn MILLIONS. Or maybe not, but think about it. It can become the #1 company in helping companies migrate to Linux.
Just think about it. With the increasing Linux market, they'll be VERY busy.
Setting up Samba? No problem. Recompiling the kernel? Our staff will go to you. Considering options between software? There we are.
"Novell. The Linux company."
But now, if Novell wants to survive SELLING SOFTWARE, then they should just forget about it. The FOSS is taking everything by storm - so they better adapt the service model (instead of the product model), or die.
Actually, for this particular one, they tend to say "NOTABUG" or "WONTFIX".
Which exposes the elitist behavior of (some? many? nearly all?) linux programmers. I think it's a shame that it took a Mac user to make Gimp REALLY popular.
Something to ponder on: "Works for me" is NOT a good attitude. There's always room for improvement.
Now, I haven't RTFA (/.'ed), but I wonder if the GIMPShop can fully be turned into a cross-platform app by using WxWidgets... how much it would take to modify it?
A friend of mine wrote a very interesting story about brain machine interfaces. I wonder, what will be the future for this technology? Will we be able, as he states, to use this technology for ultra-fast typing, drawing and making computer animations, or even making blueprints, with just our thoughts?
The part i liked the most about his story was the ultra-fast typing. Mix this with display-integrated glasses and a telecomm. Ta-da! You got text-based telepathy! Cyborgs, anyone?
I know a friend who had her entire graduate thesis in a FLOPPY. She'd save her work again and again, and again.
In the day BEFORE the deadline, her floppy began showing errors - she couldn't open the word doc anymore.
The article made me think - people just see this black box that who knows what's got inside, and by magic, things work.
I miss the days when computers were only for geeks - the books had VERY NICE intros on what was a hard disk, what were the tracks and sectors of a floppy, etc.
Let's remember that the hebrew letters for "Nero Caesar" (NRWN QSR) sum 50+200+6+50+100+60+200=666.
Some interpretations say that the Latin name "Neron Caesar" also sums 666.
So please, ask a Bible scholar before jumping up to conclusions.
It's funny, you know... how people let tend to believe rumours and conspiracy theories, when they should be working on helping the poor and feeding the hungry (Hellooooo, Matthew 25 anyone?)
Hey this story JUST reminded me of what happened in Garfield HS about 20 years ago... Jaime Escalante, latino professor in LA, went to a high school filled with losers (the worst of the worst), and decided to teach the kids calculus.
His method was revolutionary - their students ended up applying for scholarship, and their grades were so high that they raised suspicions of cheating (racism, anyone?)
So they applied for the test again, and succeeded.
Illegal immigrants is good for America coz they provide cheap Wal*Mart labor and without the ability to go get a higher education, can't compete with other permament residents/ citizens for higher paying jobs.
Only in america! While there are geniuses who would LOVE to get a citizenship and study in a famous college, high-tech jobs are running away to other countries for outsourcing.
And I say DOH!!! Can't they see that they have in the US just what they need?
1. Ban religion from schools 2. Let kids forget about religion and morals altogether 3. Impose YOUR morals (thru the media, games, schools or whatever) now that the competition is gone 4. ??? 5. Profit!
As a sidenote, I'm not only talking about the relatively recent courts decision of banning religion from state schools in the US.
In Mexico, religion was banned from schools in the late 1920's, and all opposers were labelled as bigots (by the Freemasons in the dictatorial government),persecuted and killed in a massive witch hunt.
80 years later, when the first opposing party president is elected, it's too late: today's kids enjoy watching crap like Big Brother (instead of cultural - and not necessarily boring - stuff in Discovery), and with absolutely no sense of morals or what is right and wrong. They just do as they please. Their parents? They don't give a damn, either.
Maybe this seems off-topic, but consider it food for thought. When the people's culture has been manipulated thru generations, free speech isn't free anymore. It's rather speech for those with money (or power).
In soccer ads in Mexico, the ads are b/w and transparent (they show at the bottom of the screen). They're brief, and get to the point. I just hope TiVo ads are of this kind, and NOT of the intrusive flashing stroboscopic kind. (Of course I didn't RTFA but hey, i'm at the job ^^;)
They can't afford the risk to the brand of instability (or the perception of instability) of the Windows or Office products with their enterprise customers.
Funny. It was Microsoft's IE's closed-source that led to the hundreds of viruses, worms and whatnot that stained Microsoft's reputation...
Of course, open sourcing Windows would be simply mad. But what about IE? Or the WORD DOC and Excel formats?
Woah woah. Let me just stop and laugh for a moment. You're telling me that random developer X can do a better job of making a package than the people who develop the friggin' distro?
Yes, because the people who develop the friggin' distro are uber-geniuses who have gotten accustomed to the command-line way of doing things. They've forgotten what it feels to be a mere mortal (aka Joe User) just trying to install a package in his machine. And linux zealots respect them, not because their expertise in user-friendliness, but because their expertise in hacking-and-slashing the most bits out of their box.
The last thing the Joe user needs is an übergenius (or even worse, a linuxzealot) telling him to RTFM, instead of a user-friendly installation package that makes it UNNECESSARY to RTFM.
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Firefox ALREADY HAD a popup blocker. What they borrowed from Microsoft was the top bar that allowed you to unblock a specific popup on runtime. Sometimes good ideas CALL to be borrowed (and thank God this one wasn't patented!)
Apparently it also blocks WANTED popups, even if you whitelist them.
From the blog:
Of *course* it blocks wanted popups, that's the whole point. Popup pushers have started hitchiking on the events we use to determine "wantedness". This extension is an experiment to see which is worse, the popups that are leaking through the current Firefox default settings, or not getting "wanted" popups. Obviously this will greatly depend on which sites you tend to visit so the ultimate result will probably be some sort of UI where people can more easily adjust the blocking level.
Back to the drawing board, though, on opening the popup from the infobar.
Posted by: Dan Veditz on March 31, 2005 11:11 PM
Maybe this explains the Anime version of the Powerpuff Girls that has been spotted? Maybe CN is trying to get a presence in Japan?
:P
:P )
Hmm I don't think so.
a) Rowdy is a fan. And he included some Nickelodeon characters too.
b) The powerpuff girls were actually a parody of anime girls. And the related Show, dexter's lab, also makes fun of Mechs. And MEGAS XLR made fun of the following Anime Series: Voltron, Galaxy Express 999, Sailor Moon, Power Rangers, G-Force, need I say more?
c) I prefer the much more soffisticated Saber Marionette J than the powerpuff girls. (out of topic, but hey this is slashdot
In conclusion, Cartoon Network is NOT trying to get a presence in Japan. They have just acknowledged the ever-increasing popularity of Anime in the western hemisphere.
And if you use the FlashBlock extension, nothing is loaded automatically, you have to click the button to enable a specific animation, nothing to fear.
WHich gets EXHAUSTING after watching strongbad every week! I'd rather have the ADBLOCK extension and choose which sites NOT to load flash from.
Now they replace the relatively unintrusive cookies by CODE RUNNING in our browsers!
Don't they get the message?
Yes, but don't forget that Black Holes were PREDICTED to exist, in theory, before some of the (probable) black holes were actually measured by radiotelescopes (I says measured and not "seen").
What I'd like to see is a physical equation saying that the theoretical predictions on black holes are WRONG.
If he can't prove with equations that Black Holes don't exist, then his theory is flawed. Of course, he could prove that dark energy stars DO exist. But from that to saying that ALL black holes don't...
Can you please stop and post REAL news?
;-)
I just posted one, but asked the eds to delay it till tomorrow
Services.
If Novell turns into a huge Linux tech-support company, I bet they'll earn MILLIONS. Or maybe not, but think about it. It can become the #1 company in helping companies migrate to Linux.
Just think about it. With the increasing Linux market, they'll be VERY busy.
Setting up Samba? No problem. Recompiling the kernel? Our staff will go to you. Considering options between software? There we are.
"Novell. The Linux company."
But now, if Novell wants to survive SELLING SOFTWARE, then they should just forget about it. The FOSS is taking everything by storm - so they better adapt the service model (instead of the product model), or die.
Actually, for this particular one, they tend to say "NOTABUG" or "WONTFIX".
Which exposes the elitist behavior of (some? many? nearly all?) linux programmers. I think it's a shame that it took a Mac user to make Gimp REALLY popular.
Something to ponder on: "Works for me" is NOT a good attitude. There's always room for improvement.
Now, I haven't RTFA (/.'ed), but I wonder if the GIMPShop can fully be turned into a cross-platform app by using WxWidgets... how much it would take to modify it?
Not so fast... There are similar (but not THAT similar) lookalikes in other painting software. Like Pixia.
For sci-fi and nanotech, check out "Grey Goo", a rather... weird... comic about nanotech.
You're talking about the shelf I keep in my closet to hide all the books I'm embarrassed to have bought?
;-)
That's what reviews are for
A friend of mine wrote a very interesting story about brain machine interfaces. I wonder, what will be the future for this technology? Will we be able, as he states, to use this technology for ultra-fast typing, drawing and making computer animations, or even making blueprints, with just our thoughts?
The part i liked the most about his story was the ultra-fast typing. Mix this with display-integrated glasses and a telecomm. Ta-da! You got text-based telepathy! Cyborgs, anyone?
A bank robber who forgot to put on his mask, was captured today. News at 11.
I know a friend who had her entire graduate thesis in a FLOPPY. She'd save her work again and again, and again.
In the day BEFORE the deadline, her floppy began showing errors - she couldn't open the word doc anymore.
The article made me think - people just see this black box that who knows what's got inside, and by magic, things work.
I miss the days when computers were only for geeks - the books had VERY NICE intros on what was a hard disk, what were the tracks and sectors of a floppy, etc.
Ah, the nostalgia...
Let's remember that the hebrew letters for "Nero Caesar" (NRWN QSR) sum 50+200+6+50+100+60+200=666.
Some interpretations say that the Latin name "Neron Caesar" also sums 666.
So please, ask a Bible scholar before jumping up to conclusions.
It's funny, you know... how people let tend to believe rumours and conspiracy theories, when they should be working on helping the poor and feeding the hungry (Hellooooo, Matthew 25 anyone?)
Hey this story JUST reminded me of what happened in Garfield HS about 20 years ago... Jaime Escalante, latino professor in LA, went to a high school filled with losers (the worst of the worst), and decided to teach the kids calculus.
His method was revolutionary - their students ended up applying for scholarship, and their grades were so high that they raised suspicions of cheating (racism, anyone?)
So they applied for the test again, and succeeded.
The rest, is history.
Illegal immigrants is good for America coz they provide cheap Wal*Mart labor and without the ability to go get a higher education, can't compete with other permament residents/ citizens for higher paying jobs.
Only in america! While there are geniuses who would LOVE to get a citizenship and study in a famous college, high-tech jobs are running away to other countries for outsourcing.
And I say DOH!!! Can't they see that they have in the US just what they need?
(Only in America...)
If they mean "persistent and aggravating", shouldn't it be more like "cancerous" pixels?
can be SO EASILY manipulated.
1. Ban religion from schools
2. Let kids forget about religion and morals altogether
3. Impose YOUR morals (thru the media, games, schools or whatever) now that the competition is gone
4. ???
5. Profit!
As a sidenote, I'm not only talking about the relatively recent courts decision of banning religion from state schools in the US.
In Mexico, religion was banned from schools in the late 1920's, and all opposers were labelled as bigots (by the Freemasons in the dictatorial government),persecuted and killed in a massive witch hunt.
80 years later, when the first opposing party president is elected, it's too late: today's kids enjoy watching crap like Big Brother (instead of cultural - and not necessarily boring - stuff in Discovery), and with absolutely no sense of morals or what is right and wrong. They just do as they please. Their parents? They don't give a damn, either.
Maybe this seems off-topic, but consider it food for thought. When the people's culture has been manipulated thru generations, free speech isn't free anymore. It's rather speech for those with money (or power).
In soccer ads in Mexico, the ads are b/w and transparent (they show at the bottom of the screen). They're brief, and get to the point. I just hope TiVo ads are of this kind, and NOT of the intrusive flashing stroboscopic kind. (Of course I didn't RTFA but hey, i'm at the job ^^;)
megacompany 1, meet megacompany 2.
Remember the Microsoft vs. Borland Wars?
The Microsoft vs. IBM wars?
After all these years, the world's still the same.
Yes, look what happened when Netscape was open sourced. They had to rewrite the code to get Mozilla/Firefox.
And that meant no more crashing on nested-tables. Nestcape was dying already, it HAD to be done.
From the article:
They can't afford the risk to the brand of instability (or the perception of instability) of the Windows or Office products with their enterprise customers.
Funny. It was Microsoft's IE's closed-source that led to the hundreds of viruses, worms and whatnot that stained Microsoft's reputation...
Of course, open sourcing Windows would be simply mad. But what about IE? Or the WORD DOC and Excel formats?
Woah woah. Let me just stop and laugh for a moment. You're telling me that random developer X can do a better job of making a package than the people who develop the friggin' distro?
/. article:
Yes, because the people who develop the friggin' distro are uber-geniuses who have gotten accustomed to the command-line way of doing things. They've forgotten what it feels to be a mere mortal (aka Joe User) just trying to install a package in his machine. And linux zealots respect them, not because their expertise in user-friendliness, but because their expertise in hacking-and-slashing the most bits out of their box.
The last thing the Joe user needs is an übergenius (or even worse, a linuxzealot) telling him to RTFM, instead of a user-friendly installation package that makes it UNNECESSARY to RTFM.
Remember this
Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey. Specially this comment)