They would also save a standard metric fuckton of money by replacing the resulting unnecessary IT staff (which is generally incompetent with anything past the useless knowledge that they got with their useless certifications anyway) with some guy that simply has experience with bash and networking.
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Sure, but the solution to that problem is to not connect computers that contain important data or that can connect to computers with important data to the Internet. It's really not that difficult.
You mean taking screenshots of every tab, resampling them to a smaller size, resizing them again based on which one is selected, rendering their glossy reflections, and placing them in a translucent window over the current page is slow? Can't be!
I've never liked that feature. I've always preferred switching tabs based on how they are arranged in the tab bar, not by most recently viewed, and it's more logical that way (to me) anyway. The Tabs Open Relative addon makes the feature useless as well. The most recently viewed thing was probably intended to make up for the default behavior of opening new tabs WAY THE FUCK TO THE RIGHT OF EVERY OTHER TAB, which jumbles everything up when you're doing multiple things at once and therefore makes it necessary.
Well the idea with reCAPTCHA is that an OCR bot couldn't read the words in the first place, while for humans they are generally legible. And since the words come from a variety of books with different typefaces and weights (though it's generally a serif typeface), there's not really a pattern to the lettering, especially after the distortion. It's a pretty clever idea in my opinion, and it has the added benefit of helping to digitize books in the process.
I disable phishing protection as it's just a waste of bandwidth for me. Generally I have custom Stylish styles for the websites I visit to fix layouts and do other things, so when I see that those aren't enabled, well, it's probably a phishing website.
Same with me, but at Nebraska Furniture Mart (which is much larger and more high-tech than it sounds). They tried to sell me an old Monster HDMI 1.2 cable, which had been obsolete for two years at the time the TV was purchased. Other than that and not knowing what YPbPr was, he was a nice guy. We both complained about how idiotic it is for a store demonstrating the greatness of HD TVs to have multiple TVs tuned to a 1080i channel running through split coaxial cables (without even an amplifier) from a single cable box.
And I love how all of the font sizes are specified in pixels so people with poorer-than-average eyesight using browsers like Internet Explorer 6 (not me usually) are fucked if they try to increase it.
AFAIK, most USB flash drives implement wear levelling in the hardware, so aren't flash file systems somewhat superfluous? Couldn't the two methods even conflict with each other? I haven't heard much about these file systems, so if you can inform me, go ahead.
IANAL, but isn't that theme a huge copyright infringement, even in China considering the Berne Convention? I mean a user downloading some Windows theme for personal use is probably legal and nobody gives a shit anyway, but the Chinese government is installing this everywhere. They're not really profiting, but it just seems wrong.
I might depend on the region too. For example a kid living in a relatively quiet suburban area with very low traffic might not necessarily have a great need to learn the dangers of crossing a street, yet a kid living in an urban area or a relatively high-traffic neighborhood (like the ones people cut through to avoid stop lights) would obviously have that need.
Just for information: According the NHSTA's 2007 Pedestrians Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (PDF), 4654 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in 2007, and 70 000 (hmm, what a nice round number) pedestrians were injured.
Using high-pressure explosions to push tons of metal and a big tank full of gasoline around, I'm not too sure that there are ever trivial driving conditions (over 15 km/h at least). People don't seem to realize how dangerous driving can be, both for the driver and others. Everything seems normal, routine, and trivial until a dumbass kid runs out in the street or some jackass with less care about driving comes along.
By the way mozillaZine is a great Firefox support site, at least for the things I use it for (finding about:config names and values). Support as in a place to ask questions and find answers? No idea, but that site does have a large FAQ list.
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When cornered into a room by ninjas with nothing separating you from them but a door of wood, yes, thicker is better, but you will die regardless.
He accidentally a whole word!
Well, does Joey like movies about gladiators?
I think he was using the other definition of remotely, which is admittedly confusing in that context.
They would also save a standard metric fuckton of money by replacing the resulting unnecessary IT staff (which is generally incompetent with anything past the useless knowledge that they got with their useless certifications anyway) with some guy that simply has experience with bash and networking.
Sure, but the solution to that problem is to not connect computers that contain important data or that can connect to computers with important data to the Internet. It's really not that difficult.
You mean taking screenshots of every tab, resampling them to a smaller size, resizing them again based on which one is selected, rendering their glossy reflections, and placing them in a translucent window over the current page is slow? Can't be!
I've never liked that feature. I've always preferred switching tabs based on how they are arranged in the tab bar, not by most recently viewed, and it's more logical that way (to me) anyway. The Tabs Open Relative addon makes the feature useless as well. The most recently viewed thing was probably intended to make up for the default behavior of opening new tabs WAY THE FUCK TO THE RIGHT OF EVERY OTHER TAB, which jumbles everything up when you're doing multiple things at once and therefore makes it necessary.
Electrical engineering? That means you're probably exposed to PCBs all the time! According to the article, you should become a woman any time now.
Well the idea with reCAPTCHA is that an OCR bot couldn't read the words in the first place, while for humans they are generally legible. And since the words come from a variety of books with different typefaces and weights (though it's generally a serif typeface), there's not really a pattern to the lettering, especially after the distortion. It's a pretty clever idea in my opinion, and it has the added benefit of helping to digitize books in the process.
I use a Minty and it works just fine.
By the way, try viewing altoids.com with NoScript or Flashblock enabled.
but that's not the plural of virus.
I disable phishing protection as it's just a waste of bandwidth for me. Generally I have custom Stylish styles for the websites I visit to fix layouts and do other things, so when I see that those aren't enabled, well, it's probably a phishing website.
Same with me, but at Nebraska Furniture Mart (which is much larger and more high-tech than it sounds). They tried to sell me an old Monster HDMI 1.2 cable, which had been obsolete for two years at the time the TV was purchased. Other than that and not knowing what YPbPr was, he was a nice guy. We both complained about how idiotic it is for a store demonstrating the greatness of HD TVs to have multiple TVs tuned to a 1080i channel running through split coaxial cables (without even an amplifier) from a single cable box.
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QFT. Do not stick penis into LAN.
Try *tel on Wikipedia, which apparently supports at least the * wildcard.
And I love how all of the font sizes are specified in pixels so people with poorer-than-average eyesight using browsers like Internet Explorer 6 (not me usually) are fucked if they try to increase it.
AFAIK, most USB flash drives implement wear levelling in the hardware, so aren't flash file systems somewhat superfluous? Couldn't the two methods even conflict with each other? I haven't heard much about these file systems, so if you can inform me, go ahead.
IANAL, but isn't that theme a huge copyright infringement, even in China considering the Berne Convention? I mean a user downloading some Windows theme for personal use is probably legal and nobody gives a shit anyway, but the Chinese government is installing this everywhere. They're not really profiting, but it just seems wrong.
I'd always wondered if I'd been alone in thinking that. So many comments' subjects just read "Re: whatever" that I tend to ignore them.
I might depend on the region too. For example a kid living in a relatively quiet suburban area with very low traffic might not necessarily have a great need to learn the dangers of crossing a street, yet a kid living in an urban area or a relatively high-traffic neighborhood (like the ones people cut through to avoid stop lights) would obviously have that need.
Just for information:
According the NHSTA's 2007 Pedestrians Traffic Safety Fact Sheet (PDF), 4654 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in 2007, and 70 000 (hmm, what a nice round number) pedestrians were injured.
Using high-pressure explosions to push tons of metal and a big tank full of gasoline around, I'm not too sure that there are ever trivial driving conditions (over 15 km/h at least). People don't seem to realize how dangerous driving can be, both for the driver and others. Everything seems normal, routine, and trivial until a dumbass kid runs out in the street or some jackass with less care about driving comes along.
Then don't even try explaining solidi, fraction slashes, and division slashes, all different characters.
Bonus points: minus, hyphen-minus, figure dash, en dash, em dash, and all of the hyphen characters.
By the way mozillaZine is a great Firefox support site, at least for the things I use it for (finding about:config names and values). Support as in a place to ask questions and find answers? No idea, but that site does have a large FAQ list.