No. The point of letterboxing is to create extra space for TV logos and animated overlay advertisements. It has become so popular that now, all my cable channels have 10% black borders on all four sides of the movie. It's a good thing that they invented letterboxing or else we would have to have commercial breaks instead of animated advertisements during the movie or show!
I like PBS too. I'm also fond of Questionable Content.
I like Girlgenius but don't really consider it a comic. It's more of a page at a time graphic novel.
I recently ripped through Order of the Stick and I was really deeply impressed with the quality of the characters and writing that developed from the cheap humorous beginnings. I was very touched over what happened to Miko the palidan (which is surprising given stick figures with round heads-- but like I said, good writing).
I've never been a big Calvin and Hobbe's fan. Perhaps one day I'll sit down with a book and read all of them at once.
Sooo.... you are apparently not paying your carpet design usage fee. I bet you are also not paying your lighting design, wall artwork fees, or recipe creation fees. The person who invented buffalo wings deserves to be paid a penny a wing until 2075 (well, actually her and her heirs in perpetuity until the end of time).
You... sir... are a complete scofflaw! You hear me! A scofflaw!
It's a shame you felt the need to be so sarcastic that you posted anonymously. Your post has useful information and might lead folks to actually try opera.
This is part of the reason linux has had trouble getting traction... instead of patiently explaining (probably for the dozenth time) they attacked anyone who didn't know about it already.
That's good-- and neither is the memory hog that the parent post reports.
However, you are missing some functionality. Such as the ability to capture videos off of you-tube and WoT's warnings about bad sites before I browse to them in the first place.
It seems like having javascript all off/on could be risky. And having to manually set it when I return to a site I trust would be a hassle.
As the others have said, it's probably one or more of your plugins.
I had a severe performance problem after adding one plugin that cleared up as soon as I disabled it. After running firefox for days, with 10 open tabs at this moment, the memory footprint is now: 166,500 K. (win7)
I made the transition for books a while back. I still buy books but usually give them to a library after reading them. I used to have about 5,000 books and now I'm down to about 300.
I don't buy single comics any more and rely on my buds to highlight anything good on TPB. I'm so overwhelmed by entertainment options these days that I can't keep up.
And with all the reboots in the comic book universes, I lost connection to them as an ongoing coherent universe. I expect they will reboot again every 5-8 years now.
Digital comics on a 27" monitor are BETTER than physical comics. I've been giving my physical comics away to a couple friends who value that kind of thing. To me they are just clutter.
The upsides, * instantaneous setup times * correctly enforced rules * correct and fast update/maintenance costs. * instantaneous putup times
The downsides, * DRM means you don't own the game. When the DRM approval engine expires, so does your game. (re: Divx DVD's & many others). * No house rules * No unapproved addon content * Possible restrictions on where and when you can play the game (i.e. We've detected you are in Belgium and are not licensed to play this game in that country).
Peculiar up/downsides revealed by BSW. * Remote play with others. * Loss of social aspect of gaming when playing remotely. * Fast games takes away part of the human reason for boardgaming. * Some games are trivialized when the mechanics are automated. * "others" is increasingly dominated by master players over time (unlike your local gaming group).
There are lots of companies who make standard nuts, wires, screws, tires, gasolines, insulation, etc.
If the government were to define a few standard cell phone chargers, then multiple companies would compete and cell phone chargers would probably cost about $6. Since they don't, off brand chargers are $13 and "brand" chargers from the cell store are $29.
Libertarian philosophy is fundamentally broken because it relies on a "magical" force to keep wealthy, powerful, individuals and companies in check and fails epically with regard to the iron law of oligarchy.
The only way libertarian philosophy can work is by having harsh taxes on anyone who passes a certain point of wealth and power such that we have many many "rich" people and no "super rich" people.
Since corporations are effectively immortal, psychopathic, wealthy and powerful people, we need a strong government to keep them in check lest they due things like dump toxins, allow us to be raped, take our property, fine us several lifetimes worth of income for downloading a couple dozen songs, etc.
Your points are more valid for large corporations than small businesses.
And this is what I've observed. Multiple small companies going to free/opensource stacks (including Thunderbird/Gmail and OOo.) They'll eventually grow into bigger businesses that do not use Word.
At large businesses, they do not pay full retail (in fact, having a credible OOo trial seems to be an excellent way to get Microsoft to cut prices by half) and if they are already committed to Microsoft, then they are trapped because Microsoft is very "sticky". Sharepoint, IIS, Outlook, Office all work together in ways that make it difficult to get free without high costs.
However, even at my large microsoft centric corporation, we've started using some free/opensource tools because microsoft is unable to deliver desired functionality. For example, google docs gives the ability to collaborate on shared documents which you would think sharepoint should have but doesn't.
We lost a lot of productivity with office 2007 but there were no retraining costs. They didn't give us training, they just installed the new software and we were on our own. It took about 5-6 months to recover full productivity for me. Some others were faster, most took longer. Some were even shifted off of projects because they couldn't use the new versions effectively enough to maintain required throughput.
But executives define success. They are not bound like the rest of us mortals by budgets and other constraints. If they want Office to be successful, it will be successful. So your points are valid. Large corporations will not see a cost savings from going opensource unless they decide to see cost savings (and then, amazingly, they will see large cost savings that justify big executive bonuses).
I've read speculation that the russian people have been bred to be passive by centuries of events.
Anyone who stood up on their hind legs that wasn't part of the rulership was killed. Anyone with initiative fled the country.
The result is that the citizens are fairly passive and put up with a lot more than folks in australia or america might put up with.
They seem to be using a different approach in america to enslave us. Basically, you work for corporations or you die from lack of health care. Health care doesn't need to be that expensive, but because the government and insurance "pays" for it, instead of us paying for it directly, the cost for health care has skyrocketed. It is now 2/3 cheaper to fly to india, get heart surgery, take a 2 month recovery/vacation, and then fly back to america than it is to get the same surgery in america (and about the same out of pocket expense). Similar quality of care but less malpractice protection if you get unlucky.
Prominent office suites supporting OpenDocument fully or partially include:
* AbiWord [16][17] (Users of Windows installations must first download and install Import/Export Plugins)
* Adobe Buzzword[18]
* Atlantis Word Processor[19]
* Google Docs [20]
* IBM Lotus Symphony [21][22]
* KOffice [23]
* Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 with plugin [24]
* Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) [25]
* Microsoft Wordpad (Windows 7 versions)
* NeoOffice
* OpenOffice.org
* Sun Microsystems StarOffice
* SoftMaker Office
* Corel WordPerfect Office X4[26]
* Zoho Office Suite --
I vaguely remember reading that each ODF implementation has little variances.
But it is a step in the right direction.
I went ODF (and open office specifically) with all my documents last year after word 2007 started abitrarily hanging when I tried to print word 2003 documents. After translation to OOo, printing time was reduced dramatically as a side benefit.
I was thinking $50 or $100 per song would be a "reasonable" fine so that would be about $1,200 to $2,400. (tho you could make an arguement for $50 / $100 per "album" if all the songs were from the same album).
I think people forget that they are breaking the law and get themselves into trouble.
While copyright has been perverted, even the original terms gave 28 years of protection. Without a reasonable but stiff fine, you don't have the original 28 years of protection.
A centimeter is about as far across as your pinky finger fingernail. A centimeter is about half the distance across a penny (1.9cm), nickle(2.1cm), or dime (1.7cm). So a square the size of a stack of pennies, 6 high (1.55mm each), would be 1 centimeter high, 4 centimeters square (2x2) and have 4 cubic centimeters.
A typical grain of rice appears to be about.2centimeters by 1 centimeter. So each grain of rice has roughly 1/25th of a cubic centimeter of material. So 25 grains of rice would roughly fill a cubic centimeter.
From wiki A human hair is 50 micrometers in diameter.
Since the device is.5 cubic micrometers, it is basically about 1/100th the thickness of a strand of human hair. At 100x, on a consumer microscope, it would appear as a tiny dot. At 1000x, (I think I had one that went this high), it should appear as a shape.
Comparatively, a human cell has a volume of 2.32 cubic micrometers. So this is about 1/4th the size of a human cell. You can clearly see cells in a normal microscope so this is not a sub atomic device.
As a person who lived through dos and 3.1, it felt like microsoft cared very little about piracy back then.
However, when I did some googling, it looks like microsoft has put a lot of money and effort into stopping piracy all the way back to at least 1990. Microsoft anti-piracy articles dominate the search results and I wasn't able to easily find any good examples of them tolerating piracy (tho I remember talk of them tolerating it in china and i remember talk of them tolerating it with windows 3.1/3.11).
Perhaps we were rationalizing, or perhaps microsoft had variable enforcement depending on market penetration.
While typing this, I realized my piracy toleration attitude came from windows 3.1 so I did some searches on tolerating windows 3.1 piracy and got some hits.
"than failing to put anti-copy protection on MS-DOS in 1983 or encouraging easy copying of its "enterprise" virtualization software today. Similarly making it easy for users to "illegally" copy and install Office 4.0 for Windows 3.1X while straight facedly working with both WordPerfect Corporation and Lotus Development to help these companies prevent illegal copying, was a simple tactical extension of a long term strategy based on using piracy as a way of gaining market share. "
This matches the Microsoft I grew up with and know well. Strongly saying one thing, and selectively doing other things. Saying you had to follow the legitimate API's to be Windows 95 certified, but using backdoor API's for Word95 and then still certifying it. Saying you want a partnership with a smaller company, learning their technology, dropping the patnership, and then bringing out a similar product (and being sued for it and losing a few times).
I'm sure that Microsoft is strongly against piracy wherever it has high market penetration. I'm sure it says that it is strongly against piracy everywhere but some areas are very low on the enforcement list.
The problem with that phrase is that the "cow" enjoys the hell out of giving milk. As a result of phrases like that the "cow" often goes without giving milk for years and even loses some of their ability to give milk which has to slowly recover once they start giving milk again.
Meanwhile, the smart bull goes on to another cow with a better attitude.
The parent post of a corporation as a justice was much cleverer than my overstrained mootephore.
Slashdot Mirror
It was the first google result.
Looking for something current I get this:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Opera actually shows a better number for March 2009 than Ars Technica: 2.3%.
And the result for December 2010 is: 2.3%.
It was also 2.3% for January 2009.
No. The point of letterboxing is to create extra space for TV logos and animated overlay advertisements.
It has become so popular that now, all my cable channels have 10% black borders on all four sides of the movie.
It's a good thing that they invented letterboxing or else we would have to have commercial breaks instead of animated advertisements during the movie or show!
Sheesh, some folks just don't understand.
I like PBS too. I'm also fond of Questionable Content.
I like Girlgenius but don't really consider it a comic. It's more of a page at a time graphic novel.
I recently ripped through Order of the Stick and I was really deeply impressed with the quality of the characters and writing that developed from the cheap humorous beginnings. I was very touched over what happened to Miko the palidan (which is surprising given stick figures with round heads-- but like I said, good writing).
I've never been a big Calvin and Hobbe's fan. Perhaps one day I'll sit down with a book and read all of them at once.
Sooo.... you are apparently not paying your carpet design usage fee. I bet you are also not paying your lighting design, wall artwork fees, or recipe creation fees. The person who invented buffalo wings deserves to be paid a penny a wing until 2075 (well, actually her and her heirs in perpetuity until the end of time).
You... sir... are a complete scofflaw! You hear me! A scofflaw!
It's a shame you felt the need to be so sarcastic that you posted anonymously. Your post has useful information and might lead folks to actually try opera.
This is part of the reason linux has had trouble getting traction... instead of patiently explaining (probably for the dozenth time) they attacked anyone who didn't know about it already.
Opera is at .7% (and dropping) per http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/04/march-2009-browser-stats-ie-and-opera-drop.ars.
It sounds like a nice browser. It may need some nicer users to grow.
Your rite!
You're is longer than your just like Loose is longer than lose.
I can understand "Rouge" a little, but typing more letters for an incorrect word makes no sense!
That's good-- and neither is the memory hog that the parent post reports.
However, you are missing some functionality. Such as the ability to capture videos off of you-tube and WoT's warnings about bad sites before I browse to them in the first place.
It seems like having javascript all off/on could be risky. And having to manually set it when I return to a site I trust would be a hassle.
But to each their own.
As the others have said, it's probably one or more of your plugins.
I had a severe performance problem after adding one plugin that cleared up as soon as I disabled it.
After running firefox for days, with 10 open tabs at this moment, the memory footprint is now: 166,500 K. (win7)
My plugins are:
Adblock
Noscript
WOT
BetterPrivacy
Cooliris
DownloadHelper
Skipscreen
TheCamelizer
You know... one reason for this has to be the acquisition procedures.
My company pays about $2,000 for desktops and laptops that I can buy at fry's for $490 to $700.
As a result, it can take 90 to 120 days to get a laptop which we could buy directly the same day. I have two projects waiting on hardware as a result.
I made the transition for books a while back. I still buy books but usually give them to a library after reading them. I used to have about 5,000 books and now I'm down to about 300.
I don't buy single comics any more and rely on my buds to highlight anything good on TPB. I'm so overwhelmed by entertainment options these days that I can't keep up.
And with all the reboots in the comic book universes, I lost connection to them as an ongoing coherent universe. I expect they will reboot again every 5-8 years now.
Digital comics on a 27" monitor are BETTER than physical comics. I've been giving my physical comics away to a couple friends who value that kind of thing. To me they are just clutter.
The upsides,
* instantaneous setup times
* correctly enforced rules
* correct and fast update/maintenance costs.
* instantaneous putup times
The downsides,
* DRM means you don't own the game. When the DRM approval engine expires, so does your game. (re: Divx DVD's & many others).
* No house rules
* No unapproved addon content
* Possible restrictions on where and when you can play the game (i.e. We've detected you are in Belgium and are not licensed to play this game in that country).
Peculiar up/downsides revealed by BSW.
* Remote play with others.
* Loss of social aspect of gaming when playing remotely.
* Fast games takes away part of the human reason for boardgaming.
* Some games are trivialized when the mechanics are automated.
* "others" is increasingly dominated by master players over time (unlike your local gaming group).
Come now! Don't LOOSE your cool and go all rouge on us!
There are lots of companies who make standard nuts, wires, screws, tires, gasolines, insulation, etc.
If the government were to define a few standard cell phone chargers, then multiple companies would compete and cell phone chargers would probably cost about $6. Since they don't, off brand chargers are $13 and "brand" chargers from the cell store are $29.
Libertarian philosophy is fundamentally broken because it relies on a "magical" force to keep wealthy, powerful, individuals and companies in check and fails epically with regard to the iron law of oligarchy.
The only way libertarian philosophy can work is by having harsh taxes on anyone who passes a certain point of wealth and power such that we have many many "rich" people and no "super rich" people.
Since corporations are effectively immortal, psychopathic, wealthy and powerful people, we need a strong government to keep them in check lest they due things like dump toxins, allow us to be raped, take our property, fine us several lifetimes worth of income for downloading a couple dozen songs, etc.
Your points are more valid for large corporations than small businesses.
And this is what I've observed. Multiple small companies going to free/opensource stacks (including Thunderbird/Gmail and OOo.) They'll eventually grow into bigger businesses that do not use Word.
At large businesses, they do not pay full retail (in fact, having a credible OOo trial seems to be an excellent way to get Microsoft to cut prices by half) and if they are already committed to Microsoft, then they are trapped because Microsoft is very "sticky". Sharepoint, IIS, Outlook, Office all work together in ways that make it difficult to get free without high costs.
However, even at my large microsoft centric corporation, we've started using some free/opensource tools because microsoft is unable to deliver desired functionality. For example, google docs gives the ability to collaborate on shared documents which you would think sharepoint should have but doesn't.
We lost a lot of productivity with office 2007 but there were no retraining costs. They didn't give us training, they just installed the new software and we were on our own. It took about 5-6 months to recover full productivity for me. Some others were faster, most took longer. Some were even shifted off of projects because they couldn't use the new versions effectively enough to maintain required throughput.
But executives define success. They are not bound like the rest of us mortals by budgets and other constraints. If they want Office to be successful, it will be successful. So your points are valid. Large corporations will not see a cost savings from going opensource unless they decide to see cost savings (and then, amazingly, they will see large cost savings that justify big executive bonuses).
I've read speculation that the russian people have been bred to be passive by centuries of events.
Anyone who stood up on their hind legs that wasn't part of the rulership was killed.
Anyone with initiative fled the country.
The result is that the citizens are fairly passive and put up with a lot more than folks in australia or america might put up with.
They seem to be using a different approach in america to enslave us. Basically, you work for corporations or you die from lack of health care. Health care doesn't need to be that expensive, but because the government and insurance "pays" for it, instead of us paying for it directly, the cost for health care has skyrocketed. It is now 2/3 cheaper to fly to india, get heart surgery, take a 2 month recovery/vacation, and then fly back to america than it is to get the same surgery in america (and about the same out of pocket expense). Similar quality of care but less malpractice protection if you get unlucky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
Prominent office suites supporting OpenDocument fully or partially include:
* AbiWord [16][17] (Users of Windows installations must first download and install Import/Export Plugins)
* Adobe Buzzword[18]
* Atlantis Word Processor[19]
* Google Docs [20]
* IBM Lotus Symphony [21][22]
* KOffice [23]
* Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, Office 2007 with plugin [24]
* Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) [25]
* Microsoft Wordpad (Windows 7 versions)
* NeoOffice
* OpenOffice.org
* Sun Microsystems StarOffice
* SoftMaker Office
* Corel WordPerfect Office X4[26]
* Zoho Office Suite
--
I vaguely remember reading that each ODF implementation has little variances.
But it is a step in the right direction.
I went ODF (and open office specifically) with all my documents last year after word 2007 started abitrarily hanging when I tried to print word 2003 documents. After translation to OOo, printing time was reduced dramatically as a side benefit.
I was thinking $50 or $100 per song would be a "reasonable" fine so that would be about $1,200 to $2,400. (tho you could make an arguement for $50 / $100 per "album" if all the songs were from the same album).
I think people forget that they are breaking the law and get themselves into trouble.
While copyright has been perverted, even the original terms gave 28 years of protection. Without a reasonable but stiff fine, you don't have the original 28 years of protection.
If they charged a reasonable price, they would get a lot more customers. $1 a week.
$5 a week approaches the cost of a new dish network account with 130 channels.
However, Backus is merely "close".
So...
http://www.owners.com/MN/Brainerd/Homes-By-Owner/
http://www.owners.com/MN/Brainerd/DWJ0099/?sch=c+33825
$56,500.
http://www.assist2sellbrainerdlakes.com/bin/web/real_estate/AR32779/HOME_SEARCH/Brainerd/1214840828.html
First listing...
click to view
Click To View Details Single Family Home
2328 Sw State 64 Highway
Backus, MN $59,900 3 Bed
Full - 1 ea. Bath 1288 sq ft
---
The rest were more expensive and ranged up to $549,900.
A centimeter is about as far across as your pinky finger fingernail.
A centimeter is about half the distance across a penny (1.9cm), nickle(2.1cm), or dime (1.7cm).
So a square the size of a stack of pennies, 6 high (1.55mm each), would be 1 centimeter high, 4 centimeters square (2x2) and have 4 cubic centimeters.
A typical grain of rice appears to be about .2centimeters by 1 centimeter. So each grain of rice has roughly 1/25th of a cubic centimeter of material. So 25 grains of rice would roughly fill a cubic centimeter.
From here http://online.unitconverterpro.com/common-conversion-tables/convert-alpha/length.html
there are 10,000 micrometers per centimeter.
From wiki
A human hair is 50 micrometers in diameter.
Since the device is .5 cubic micrometers, it is basically about 1/100th the thickness of a strand of human hair.
At 100x, on a consumer microscope, it would appear as a tiny dot.
At 1000x, (I think I had one that went this high), it should appear as a shape.
Comparatively, a human cell has a volume of 2.32 cubic micrometers. So this is about 1/4th the size of a human cell.
You can clearly see cells in a normal microscope so this is not a sub atomic device.
As a person who lived through dos and 3.1, it felt like microsoft cared very little about piracy back then.
However, when I did some googling, it looks like microsoft has put a lot of money and effort into stopping piracy all the way back to at least 1990. Microsoft anti-piracy articles dominate the search results and I wasn't able to easily find any good examples of them tolerating piracy (tho I remember talk of them tolerating it in china and i remember talk of them tolerating it with windows 3.1/3.11).
Perhaps we were rationalizing, or perhaps microsoft had variable enforcement depending on market penetration.
While typing this, I realized my piracy toleration attitude came from windows 3.1 so I did some searches on tolerating windows 3.1 piracy and got some hits.
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:Cs-TDEi65mkJ:blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/index.php%3Fp%3D709+microsoft+tolerated+windows+3.1+piracy&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
for example.
"than failing to put anti-copy protection on MS-DOS in 1983 or encouraging easy copying of its "enterprise" virtualization software today. Similarly making it easy for users to "illegally" copy and install Office 4.0 for Windows 3.1X while straight facedly working with both WordPerfect Corporation and Lotus Development to help these companies prevent illegal copying, was a simple tactical extension of a long term strategy based on using piracy as a way of gaining market share. "
This matches the Microsoft I grew up with and know well. Strongly saying one thing, and selectively doing other things. Saying you had to follow the legitimate API's to be Windows 95 certified, but using backdoor API's for Word95 and then still certifying it. Saying you want a partnership with a smaller company, learning their technology, dropping the patnership, and then bringing out a similar product (and being sued for it and losing a few times).
I'm sure that Microsoft is strongly against piracy wherever it has high market penetration. I'm sure it says that it is strongly against piracy everywhere but some areas are very low on the enforcement list.
Nothing quite like two national governments recommending against using your product to raise the priority of fixing the problem.
The problem with that phrase is that the "cow" enjoys the hell out of giving milk. As a result of phrases like that the "cow" often goes without giving milk for years and even loses some of their ability to give milk which has to slowly recover once they start giving milk again.
Meanwhile, the smart bull goes on to another cow with a better attitude.
The parent post of a corporation as a justice was much cleverer than my overstrained mootephore.