And what is the problem? If the battery were real, retailers could sell laptops without batteries and you'd just use the old one for the next 9 laptops.
I realize the parent is just a troll, but I want to point out that Opera is definately not evil! I have been working for Opera since may, and I have found the culture within the company is amazing! The environment is great and the people working there are very friendly.
On friday August 10th, I became very ill. I was rushed to a hospital and was given treatment. After two days and a lot of tests, the doctors found that my heart is not working as it should. It seems that I have had this condition for quite a while, at least for several years.
Long story short, I'm still in the hospital and tomorrow I'm operating in an ICD, a heart starter. All the time while I've been here, Anne (personell manager), have visited me regularily. When I was tired of the regular hospital food, they've brought me something else to eat. They got me flowers and twice they brought lots of colorful "get well" balloons, which really shines up the boring hostpital-white-walls. I've had plenty of visits from other colleguaes as well so there is no need for anyone to feel alone here. Even if you are coming from far away to work here, Opera will definately take care of you.
The hospital here doesn't provide internet access for patients, but Opera (or actually the CEO, Jon) lent me a NetCom subscription for wireless 3G-ultra. This is what I'm using to post this comment, and it works great:-) Right here I actually get somewhere around 1Mb connection, wireless! Now I can talk to my brother who is studying in Australia for free.
Oh and I'm living in Norway, so I have no monetary problems while being treated. I also get full pay while in the hospital, so I have absolutely no worries about money. All I have to do, is to relax and get enough sleep.
Speaking of sleep... It's midnight and I have to get up tomorrow and have an operation.
Translation to english for those that do not speak "1337":
Dear owned dude,
You have no right to live anymore because you suck. Please return to your spawn point so I can frag your sorry ass some more. Lol, loser thougth he was leet! Owned!
Now I'm not sure which is more depressing -- the dude who speaks leet in 2007 or the fact that I just translated that. If you need me, I'll be sulking in the corner with Eberlin. I'm SO depressed!
2. Broswers don't accept zipped pages, so the file would have to be manually unzipped before presentation to the broswer.
I assume you meant Internet Explorer doesn't accept compressed pages, because both Opera and Firefox does. I don't know about Safari, but I would assume so.
Probably too late for anyone with no email notice, at least:-)
Regarding the configuration, rarely does anyone write the code to configure something themselves, but using an interface a lot of users may install something someone else wrote. Just look at Firefox's extensions.
In Opera, you can easily add site specific stylesheets - and so there are stylesheets available for download that alter the presentation of sites. For example, I didn't like how comments were indented at Slashdot, so I added a 2px border on the left of each comment, which lets me easily see the indentation level of each post. They are nested which also lets me set different colors for each indentation level. I could easily make that stylesheet available to others with a quick explanation of how to add it.
Even if you hate drop shadows - having them defined via CSS would theoretically give you the ability to actually turn them off, provided you can figure out how to make your local stylesheet override that particular property on a global level.
Oh, you mean like *{text-shadow:none !important;} ?
UO is close to 10 years old, has shitty graphics (technically compared to today's standards, I still think the 2D client is the prettier one) and used to be a lot better of a game before EA got their damn dirty hands on it.
It seems to me that current MMOGs are currently only exploiting the basic drives of humans rather than making truly fun games. I can't blame them as this rakes in the cash more since people get addicted, but fun is so much more than that. Here's a few keywords of "fun things" I identified in less than 3 minutes:
Of those, the last two bulletpoints contain the aspects that are currently favoured in MMOGs today, while the two others are mostly found in indie games, such as Armadillo's Run and Toribash (two games I recently discovered). Interestingly, UO had almost all those points. Also, more interconnection between these points leads to a more interesting game for a longer time.
I was thinking more in the lines of them trying to blow one gun up with the other and if said target would allow the person behind it to be killed from the resulting debris.
I accept that the chance of hitting the barrel entrance is very small, but people win the lottery as well. What is less convincing is that a bullet down said barrel can kill the person holding the gun, seeing as how not even a welded shut shotgun will do the trick.
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Meanwhile, http://www.torrentspy.com/ and other such sites lets me in without a problem. I do think the site is slow and clunky, the quality is crap and many other negative aspects, but it beats spending ungodly amounts of time trying to find something from the very limited supply in shops.
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And what is the problem? If the battery were real, retailers could sell laptops without batteries and you'd just use the old one for the next 9 laptops.
I'm okay :-) Hopefully they will let me out tomorrow or friday. I've been here for 4 weeks, so it feels like getting out of prison.
It is called gratitude and optimism. Try it out, it's great!
Actually, they are about 40% dolomite.
I realize the parent is just a troll, but I want to point out that Opera is definately not evil! I have been working for Opera since may, and I have found the culture within the company is amazing! The environment is great and the people working there are very friendly.
:-) Right here I actually get somewhere around 1Mb connection, wireless! Now I can talk to my brother who is studying in Australia for free.
On friday August 10th, I became very ill. I was rushed to a hospital and was given treatment. After two days and a lot of tests, the doctors found that my heart is not working as it should. It seems that I have had this condition for quite a while, at least for several years.
Long story short, I'm still in the hospital and tomorrow I'm operating in an ICD, a heart starter. All the time while I've been here, Anne (personell manager), have visited me regularily. When I was tired of the regular hospital food, they've brought me something else to eat. They got me flowers and twice they brought lots of colorful "get well" balloons, which really shines up the boring hostpital-white-walls. I've had plenty of visits from other colleguaes as well so there is no need for anyone to feel alone here. Even if you are coming from far away to work here, Opera will definately take care of you.
The hospital here doesn't provide internet access for patients, but Opera (or actually the CEO, Jon) lent me a NetCom subscription for wireless 3G-ultra. This is what I'm using to post this comment, and it works great
Oh and I'm living in Norway, so I have no monetary problems while being treated. I also get full pay while in the hospital, so I have absolutely no worries about money. All I have to do, is to relax and get enough sleep.
Speaking of sleep... It's midnight and I have to get up tomorrow and have an operation.
Thanks to everyone at Opera! "I'll be back" 8-)
Well, clearly RFC 3514 will play an important role in the New Internet.
Translation to english for those that do not speak "1337":
Now I'm not sure which is more depressing -- the dude who speaks leet in 2007 or the fact that I just translated that. If you need me, I'll be sulking in the corner with Eberlin. I'm SO depressed!
I assume you meant Internet Explorer doesn't accept compressed pages, because both Opera and Firefox does. I don't know about Safari, but I would assume so.
Apparently, nerds can't hold their wii and shit happens as a result.
Not if the alpha male makes sure that the offspring never grows up to propagate themselves.
Well I own the copyright for "stuff", all your money are belong to me.
Personally, I never go anywhere without my mutated anthrax. It's for duck huntin'.
No, Opera does not use a fake UA string any more.
Incidentally - Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox all fake their UA strings.
And you completely ignored Hallvors' post where he said he would patch it for all Opera users if you'd given him the name of the site.
The counter loops around every 32 days.
Have a look at Opera 9.x's advisory list :-)
Botnets created to spam or DOS attack sites, that's why we should care.
'Shoot the candidate you'd like to vote for'? - Not so sure about that one...
Probably too late for anyone with no email notice, at least :-)
Regarding the configuration, rarely does anyone write the code to configure something themselves, but using an interface a lot of users may install something someone else wrote. Just look at Firefox's extensions.
In Opera, you can easily add site specific stylesheets - and so there are stylesheets available for download that alter the presentation of sites. For example, I didn't like how comments were indented at Slashdot, so I added a 2px border on the left of each comment, which lets me easily see the indentation level of each post. They are nested which also lets me set different colors for each indentation level. I could easily make that stylesheet available to others with a quick explanation of how to add it.
Oh, you mean like *{text-shadow:none !important;} ?
UO is close to 10 years old, has shitty graphics (technically compared to today's standards, I still think the 2D client is the prettier one) and used to be a lot better of a game before EA got their damn dirty hands on it.
It seems to me that current MMOGs are currently only exploiting the basic drives of humans rather than making truly fun games. I can't blame them as this rakes in the cash more since people get addicted, but fun is so much more than that. Here's a few keywords of "fun things" I identified in less than 3 minutes:
* Adventuring, exploring, discovering, learning, solving, reducing complexity, contemplating systems, saving resources
* Creating, customizing, personalization
* Fame and glory, socialization
* Riches, rare items, hoarding
Of those, the last two bulletpoints contain the aspects that are currently favoured in MMOGs today, while the two others are mostly found in indie games, such as Armadillo's Run and Toribash (two games I recently discovered). Interestingly, UO had almost all those points. Also, more interconnection between these points leads to a more interesting game for a longer time.
Ah, now that makes a lot more sense. My bad.
I was thinking more in the lines of them trying to blow one gun up with the other and if said target would allow the person behind it to be killed from the resulting debris.
I accept that the chance of hitting the barrel entrance is very small, but people win the lottery as well. What is less convincing is that a bullet down said barrel can kill the person holding the gun, seeing as how not even a welded shut shotgun will do the trick.
Meanwhile, http://www.torrentspy.com/ and other such sites lets me in without a problem. I do think the site is slow and clunky, the quality is crap and many other negative aspects, but it beats spending ungodly amounts of time trying to find something from the very limited supply in shops.