Less than a minute? Wow! That's almost as fast as the four seconds it takes in my browser!
I've always been fascinated by the fact that disabling scripting in FireFox requires a plugin. In Opera, all you do is click a checkbox in a drop-down menu (or to do it per-site, a checkbox in a dialog window). The same goes for enabling/disabling plugins, applets, sound, cookies, animated images, popups (actually a set of radio buttons and not a checkbox), proxy servers, and sending referer information. It seems to me to be an excessive amount of work to have to install additional software just to get basic security features.
rational numbers are those that can be expressed as p/q where p and q are prime integers.
Under your definition of "rational", 4/5 (0.8) is an irrational number. In order for a number to be rational, p and q need only be integers. Whether they are prime is irrelevant.
I'm reading and posting to Slashdot using Opera on Ubuntu right now, and it works just fine.
I'll admit that the Linux version of Opera seems less stable than the Windows version (it seems to crash fairly regularly, though some websites seem more likely to cause a crash than others), but I've noticed the same thing from Firefox.
The main problem I've encountered with Opera has been badly-designed websites that _require_ MSIE or Firefox (usually the former) either explicitly or by using non-standard features only supported by that browser. I generally try to avoid such sites, though sometimes it's impossible to get around them.
Opera is by far the most standards-compliant browser I've used.
I liked 1 and 2 a lot better than 3 and 4. When they switched to live action cut scenes instead of animated ones, they seriously cut back on the quality of storytelling (it seemed like Chris Roberts fell in love with the technology and forgot what made the series great). I absolutely hated what they did with Hobbes. He was much more interesting (and believable) as a defector than as a deep cover Kilrathi spy. That just seemed to come out of nowhere.
Needless to say that sending a cruise missile into mainland China to take out a hacker's house would be a very bad move for the US in the current climate.
I'm intrigued. In what climate _would_ doing that be a good move?
Take McCain's answer to the question Jay Leno asked about how many houses he owned. McCain's programming knows if he gets a question he doesn't like, just talk about his military service. That's exactly what he did.
The Daily Show actually pointed that out the other night. They showed clips of two separate interviews (neither of which was with Jay Leno) in which the interviewer asked McCain about his houses, and his response both times was along the lines of "Back when I was POW in Vietnam, I didn't even have a chair to sit in, let alone a house." He completely ducked the question with the same irrelevant response both times!
If you want an example of Obama thinking on his feet, check out his interview with Bill O'Reilly (just search for "Obama O'Reilly interview" on YouTube; the interview is divided into four parts, so there will be four separate videos). O'Reilly does a good job of grilling Obama, forcing him to give a substantive answer to each question, and even argues with him about his responses, but each discussion eventually concludes with either O'Reilly satisfied with Obama's response (which is not easy to accomplish), or reaching a philisophical difference of opinion not worth debating further.
I'm inclined to agree, especially since swerving off the road is generally not a good idea. What if there had been a pedestrian on the side of the road? The asshat probably would have driven off without a scratch, and you'd be left to explain to the police why you killed someone (though, in this case, the guy behind you probably would have corroborated your story).
I believe the point of that person's "confused" comment was that the drug dealers and homeless people were being lumped together as one group, despite the fact that the homeless people have a legitimate reason to be in the area (there's a homeless shelter nearby), not that the homeless people are confused.
>>Google lost the ability to "do no evil" the minute they became a publicly traded company.
Your statement is, in fact, utter nonsense.
Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin together possess 66% of the voting power in the company, which is more than enough to shoot down any proposal that the directors (i.e., they) disagree with.
The result of this vote was a decision by the founders, and NOT by random shareholders.
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Also for visually impaired people,
it may be the sole mean of avoiding cars.
And for the deaf people?
I'd imagine that they'd fare the same way they currently do against normal cars.
In any case, everyone knows that if your Nintendo games don't work properly, all you need to do is blow the dust out of the cartridge.
Well then, as I said before, that's a standard feature in Opera.
Me too.
Less than a minute? Wow! That's almost as fast as the four seconds it takes in my browser!
I've always been fascinated by the fact that disabling scripting in FireFox requires a plugin. In Opera, all you do is click a checkbox in a drop-down menu (or to do it per-site, a checkbox in a dialog window). The same goes for enabling/disabling plugins, applets, sound, cookies, animated images, popups (actually a set of radio buttons and not a checkbox), proxy servers, and sending referer information. It seems to me to be an excessive amount of work to have to install additional software just to get basic security features.
And yes, I'm an Opera fanboy. ;-)
rational numbers are those that can be expressed as p/q where p and q are prime integers.
Under your definition of "rational", 4/5 (0.8) is an irrational number. In order for a number to be rational, p and q need only be integers. Whether they are prime is irrelevant.
Now THAT's funny. :-D
You're kidding, right?
Just in case you live in a cave, AOL = America Online, the #1 ISP of people who don't know better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aol
I'm reading and posting to Slashdot using Opera on Ubuntu right now, and it works just fine.
I'll admit that the Linux version of Opera seems less stable than the Windows version (it seems to crash fairly regularly, though some websites seem more likely to cause a crash than others), but I've noticed the same thing from Firefox.
The main problem I've encountered with Opera has been badly-designed websites that _require_ MSIE or Firefox (usually the former) either explicitly or by using non-standard features only supported by that browser. I generally try to avoid such sites, though sometimes it's impossible to get around them.
Opera is by far the most standards-compliant browser I've used.
I liked 1 and 2 a lot better than 3 and 4. When they switched to live action cut scenes instead of animated ones, they seriously cut back on the quality of storytelling (it seemed like Chris Roberts fell in love with the technology and forgot what made the series great). I absolutely hated what they did with Hobbes. He was much more interesting (and believable) as a defector than as a deep cover Kilrathi spy. That just seemed to come out of nowhere.
Also, if they made one that felt BETTER, we could eliminate women altogether.
You sir, are lining up for a darwin award.
I'm intrigued as to why this was modded "Informative"....
In any case, as I understand it, people don't generally commit suicide by getting shot in public while riding their bicycles to work.
Of course, there's always the possibility that they guy knew that SOMEONE was out to get him, but that he was wrong about who it was.
Needless to say that sending a cruise missile into mainland China to take out a hacker's house would be a very bad move for the US in the current climate.
I'm intrigued. In what climate _would_ doing that be a good move?
Why is this "informative"?
Oh my...
Take McCain's answer to the question Jay Leno asked about how many houses he owned. McCain's programming knows if he gets a question he doesn't like, just talk about his military service. That's exactly what he did.
The Daily Show actually pointed that out the other night. They showed clips of two separate interviews (neither of which was with Jay Leno) in which the interviewer asked McCain about his houses, and his response both times was along the lines of "Back when I was POW in Vietnam, I didn't even have a chair to sit in, let alone a house." He completely ducked the question with the same irrelevant response both times!
If you want an example of Obama thinking on his feet, check out his interview with Bill O'Reilly (just search for "Obama O'Reilly interview" on YouTube; the interview is divided into four parts, so there will be four separate videos). O'Reilly does a good job of grilling Obama, forcing him to give a substantive answer to each question, and even argues with him about his responses, but each discussion eventually concludes with either O'Reilly satisfied with Obama's response (which is not easy to accomplish), or reaching a philisophical difference of opinion not worth debating further.
Didn't Nintendo already do this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Zero
Semi-first world countries? Just goes to show how out of touch BadAnalogyGuy really is with the rest of the world.
There. Fixed it for you. :-)
I'm inclined to agree, especially since swerving off the road is generally not a good idea. What if there had been a pedestrian on the side of the road? The asshat probably would have driven off without a scratch, and you'd be left to explain to the police why you killed someone (though, in this case, the guy behind you probably would have corroborated your story).
I believe the point of that person's "confused" comment was that the drug dealers and homeless people were being lumped together as one group, despite the fact that the homeless people have a legitimate reason to be in the area (there's a homeless shelter nearby), not that the homeless people are confused.
From TFA:
"hostlist.6223.soscoe.c16. That line of code, like modern-day hieroglyphics, flashes on a flat screen in a classified Boeing plant...."
What kind of line of code is that? It looks like a filename or an identifier of some sort, not any programming language I've ever seen.
Also from TFA:
"Congressional investigators are also concerned that the lines of code have nearly doubled since development began in 2003."
Nearly doubled since development began? Let's see, last time I checked, 2 x 0 = 0. Or did they start out with some code before they began development?
There. Fixed that for you.
Who modded that "informative"????
You stole that line from the T-shirts they sell at the University Shoppe!
>>Google lost the ability to "do no evil" the minute they became a publicly traded company.
Your statement is, in fact, utter nonsense.
Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin together possess 66% of the voting power in the company, which is more than enough to shoot down any proposal that the directors (i.e., they) disagree with.
The result of this vote was a decision by the founders, and NOT by random shareholders.
People still use AOL? For heaven's sake, why?