Unless you're on Mac OS X, in which case the only option. (Unless you like long start times, lack of HIG compliance, and an ugly, unmatching interface.)
The difference is that Firefox is a free and open source browser. It doesn't have million dollar budgets to advertise with. It is totally dependent on its users to do the advertising, or to donate money to buy ad space.
Why do you think Fox has such a wide viewership? Because they write stories that a lot of people agree with. The farther to the right they go, the more the slim conservative majority in the country watches.
Same thing with NPR. There was a series on last week called (no joke) "The Death of Men." It was about how the Y Chromosome will die out and genetics and biotech will make men extraneous. But the title could just as easily disguised some feminist rant about how men ruin everything they touch.
The media isn't liberal or conservative: it's corporate. It's job is to get as many people reading/watching/listening as possible so that ad revenues go up, and the shareholders make a profit.
This is done by using sensationalist news and showing the point of view that most people agree with. Which is why you see stories like "Sex Offenders in your neighborhood!" and "Puppies: Too Cute?"
I haven't watched the news in about a year because I just couldn't take it anymore. Turn on CNN or Fox or MSNBC any time of the day and you can run down a checklist:
( ) Story about sex
( ) Story about violence
( ) Story threatening your well-being
( ) Fluff story nobody could disagree with
YOu forget we're dealing with people who don't mind dying if it takes out their enemy. They don't need automated boats; they'll just find some angry Muslim male, warp his mind by providing a scapegoat and put him in the cockpit/behind the wheel expecting 40 virgins.
There will always be people who hate America, just like there will always be racists and anti-Semites. But if we remove their base of support (anger in the Muslim world) they'll just be kooks.
And you don't make friends with bullets and bombs.
Funny thing, that. Islamic Terrorists are required by the rules of Jihad to give warning so that civilians will move out of the area before the attack.
Sunglasses are a nice, high-contrast object to track, too. Wouldn't be too hard to make a camera that can detect where your eyes are, where the sun is, and write a little code to darken specific pixels.
I use OO.o on my XP machine at work, and I use it on my Mac at home, but it's a jarring experience to open a file. The launch time is geologic compared to the PC at work, because it has to open X11, then open OO.o, then run a script to tell OO.o to open the specific file. Also, it's a shock to go from Aqua to X11, especially because all the keyboard shortcuts I'm used to (like Cmd+W to close a document, which closes the OO.o session when I'm in X11) are changed. I still use it because I want to support OSS, but I don't make my wife use it because she won't deal with the flaws it has.
I really can't wait till there's an Aqua-native version of OpenOffice. Abiword doesn't work for me (crashes after three seconds of uptime), and NeoOffice is still slow and buggy. I'd help, but I don't know how to code in C, let alone on such a huge and well-known project.
I'd settle for one that automatically blocks most of the sunlight. I'm too big for the visors to work without blocking my view of the road, and I almost hit a pedestrian this morning who was wearing white and in the glare of the sun. A dark dot that positions itself between the driver's eyes and the sun would be very useful, even if that's all the 'active' windshield did.
Apple's Mail.app has a good feature that doesn't load messages in suspected spam unless you click a button. Quite handy. Not sure if it's in Thunderbird, though.
No, it's not. If he can write a program to, say, estimate the area under a curve then he's shown far more knowledge of the algorithm than someone who's done it a million times.
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But since you can get power over Firewire for everything you've listed, there really isn't a point now.
Unless you're on Mac OS X, in which case the only option. (Unless you like long start times, lack of HIG compliance, and an ugly, unmatching interface.)
2) There isn't another place to find OSX Native GIMP.
GIMP for Mac might be bad, OpenOffice for Mac is worse. And I use OpenOffice in X11.
All I want is a Native Mac OS X version of GIMP that doesn't cost $50.
The difference is that Firefox is a free and open source browser. It doesn't have million dollar budgets to advertise with. It is totally dependent on its users to do the advertising, or to donate money to buy ad space.
Heck, wordpress could use a XUL frontend.
Unfortunately, I have too much on my plate, and there's only one O'Reilly book on the subject.
Same thing with NPR. There was a series on last week called (no joke) "The Death of Men." It was about how the Y Chromosome will die out and genetics and biotech will make men extraneous. But the title could just as easily disguised some feminist rant about how men ruin everything they touch.
The media is only as biased as its audience.
*urp*
Sorry, I threw up in my mouth a little bit there.
1) Fill tub with warm soapy water.
2) Throw cat in tub
3) Run away.
This is done by using sensationalist news and showing the point of view that most people agree with. Which is why you see stories like "Sex Offenders in your neighborhood!" and "Puppies: Too Cute?"
I haven't watched the news in about a year because I just couldn't take it anymore. Turn on CNN or Fox or MSNBC any time of the day and you can run down a checklist:
( ) Story about sex
( ) Story about violence
( ) Story threatening your well-being
( ) Fluff story nobody could disagree with
Or maybe I could put one in my shed so I can hide there when my mother-in-law comes over.
I don't trust most network admins to run Ethernet, and you want me to let them run 120V power cables, too?
There will always be people who hate America, just like there will always be racists and anti-Semites. But if we remove their base of support (anger in the Muslim world) they'll just be kooks.
And you don't make friends with bullets and bombs.
Send good beer!
Eventually, the warning will be the attack.
GPS is so widespread that disabling it, even for a terrorist attack, would cause more harm than good.
Besides, if the terrorists have already attacked, isn't it too late?
Seriously, you read slashdot and you don't know about this yet?
Sunglasses are a nice, high-contrast object to track, too. Wouldn't be too hard to make a camera that can detect where your eyes are, where the sun is, and write a little code to darken specific pixels.
I really can't wait till there's an Aqua-native version of OpenOffice. Abiword doesn't work for me (crashes after three seconds of uptime), and NeoOffice is still slow and buggy. I'd help, but I don't know how to code in C, let alone on such a huge and well-known project.
Check to see if we're videotaping the movie and alert the authorities?
"Computer. Computer?"
/holds mouse to face
/sees keyboard
"Ah, the keyboard. How quaint."
"Hello computer?"
I'd settle for one that automatically blocks most of the sunlight. I'm too big for the visors to work without blocking my view of the road, and I almost hit a pedestrian this morning who was wearing white and in the glare of the sun. A dark dot that positions itself between the driver's eyes and the sun would be very useful, even if that's all the 'active' windshield did.
Apple's Mail.app has a good feature that doesn't load messages in suspected spam unless you click a button. Quite handy. Not sure if it's in Thunderbird, though.
No, it's not. If he can write a program to, say, estimate the area under a curve then he's shown far more knowledge of the algorithm than someone who's done it a million times.
UnRoomba... heh.