'It was my little daughter,' said Jason9x19 with a sort of doleful pride. 'She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.'
Powerpoint really doesn't do anything extra for the presentation. It helps the lazy presenter, for which I am grateful, but I don't believe it helps the audience.
One of the lesser used features of Opera is the Opera Show Presentation format which is a nifty (albeit non-standard) way of presenting a slide show (power point like) presentation which is also represented in CSS and HTML. This could be the basis for the "web based" presentation.
As far as the point about web-based presentations goes, your comment "if the presentation is not public, then putting it on a web server might not be the brightest thing to do" can be applied to the PPT file as well. The web-based presentation doesn't have to be on a network server - simply a collection of local files would work as well.
Debate was intense when an amendment was attached which would have advocated eating all your vegetables. Several representatives decried what they claimed was "unwarranted influence peddling to the vegetable lobbyists" and a filibuster was mounted around the theme of "I don't wanna eat my broccoli" and "you can't make me! you can't!". Even an amendment which would permit the consumption of dessert after all vegetables had been consumed was met with disdain, and finally the amendment was blocked in its entirety.
Hey, look - they could actively be screwing things up royally. This distracts them from causing real harm and provides/. with a reasonably close to on-topic story on what promises to be a slow day.
Drink plenty of fluids and watch your electrolytes.... whl
Well, I use Opera as well, but I do keep MS IE and Firefox up to date, just to be safe. There are occasions to use them, even though I have open a hole in my s/w firewall to get them to connect to anything.
Well, it follows writely exactly, as that's what it does as well. Both claim this for Opera 9, which works if, as you point out, the web page settings are bypassed.
It is another one of those sites/applications which violates browser independence for no apparent reason.
Yes, that is for tabs. Create a new window (Ctrl-N in the new mapping), then close it. Those tabs were stored with the closed page, and not in the tab recyle bin.
I am asking for a system which rescues the "lost tabs" on closed pages (windows).
What I am looking for can be done manually by selecting "save session" every now and then, but that is manual, requires forethought and is thus beyond me...
It's a deceptive marketing practice - often the listed "price" is shown inclusive of some kind of "rebate". It is a lie, albeit one where the "fine print" covers things up.
It's after-sale, so any taxes applied are based on a higher price.
It's manipulative - there are often extra things which have to be done to get the rebate. Sometimes extra purchases must be made.
It is, as you say, inconvenient. Anything that a vendor does to case the buyer unnecessary grief is not welcome.
Part of the idea is to make sure that people don't ask for the rebate. This seems anti-competitive.
Well, I'm not sure the Opera programmers will get to see this, but here a few things:
FTP uploads (yes, I know the arguments against it, I'm just sayin')
Recovering closed pages. If the page closed is not the last page of a session, it will not be saved and is not recoverable. Can we have a system parallel to the "tab savers" for pages?
Customisable translator list - similar to the new way to edit the search engine list, but so that other languages can be easily added by the user.
Less "nag windows" - I know that I connect to an idiot's "secure server" which has a less than desireable level of encryption, but I'm okay with it - can I toggle Opera to never ask about it again? Right now it asks the first time for each session.
The word Hawking (if it is really him) used is "sustain", not survive.
That is somewhat ambiguous. Are we sustaining our current lifestyle? It is unlikely we can maintain current use of fossil fuels for a century, so we'd have to use other primary energy sources. Are we sustaining population growth? We would have to develop more agricultural technologies to feed everyone. (Soylent green? Edible end of the world movies?) Sustaining technological growth? Well, we have to do that to sustain our other aspects.
I can't see what the questioner means by "in chaos... socially". The human race has either been in chaos socially forever, or we are not in chaos now. Things haven't changed significantly, that I can see, for some time from a larger perspective. In politics, the common way to survive problems is to force a change in government, sometimes by just letting the current dynasty die out. We can't sustain all of the political systems we currently have.
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Opera 9.01 is out for testing. However, it is mostly tweaking.
I can't fathom why any would have those useless thumbnail tab views.
'It was my little daughter,' said Jason9x19 with a sort of doleful pride. 'She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don't bear her any grudge for it. In fact I'm proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.'
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The thing can balance on one foot - I'm sure it can do Tai Chi.
I hear rumours that some slashdaughters have husbands ...
It is.
Just remember to keep OpenOffice.org up to date as well. Current version is 2.0.3 - updated to patch 3 security holes.
One of the lesser used features of Opera is the Opera Show Presentation format which is a nifty (albeit non-standard) way of presenting a slide show (power point like) presentation which is also represented in CSS and HTML. This could be the basis for the "web based" presentation.
As far as the point about web-based presentations goes, your comment "if the presentation is not public, then putting it on a web server might not be the brightest thing to do" can be applied to the PPT file as well. The web-based presentation doesn't have to be on a network server - simply a collection of local files would work as well.
I'm just not a people person, you can count me out.
"Not entirely accurate." ... Isn't that synonymous with "found on the internet"? ;-)
Is this what you're looking for? Or this?
Hey, look - they could actively be screwing things up royally. This distracts them from causing real harm and provides /. with a reasonably close to on-topic story on what promises to be a slow day.
Drink plenty of fluids and watch your electrolytes. ... whl
I'm sure you mean Upper Canada Village . (After all, Canada is from the Huron word kanata, or village.)
Actually, that sort of population selection should give rise to better cricket players (er, if you see what I mean).
Given that Microsoft has the keys to the front door (windows security update for example), why would they need a backdoor?
I'm undecided as to whether alternative stream was a good idea with poor implementation (and bad documentation), or just a bad idea.
Eye used Opera's spell cheque on the post
Well, I use Opera as well, but I do keep MS IE and Firefox up to date, just to be safe. There are occasions to use them, even though I have open a hole in my s/w firewall to get them to connect to anything.
Well, it follows writely exactly, as that's what it does as well. Both claim this for Opera 9, which works if, as you point out, the web page settings are bypassed.
It is another one of those sites/applications which violates browser independence for no apparent reason.
Apart from the time scale involved, this isn't all that new. Scientific American had an article on this over a year ago.
I am asking for a system which rescues the "lost tabs" on closed pages (windows).
What I am looking for can be done manually by selecting "save session" every now and then, but that is manual, requires forethought and is thus beyond me ...
- It's a deceptive marketing practice - often the listed "price" is shown inclusive of some kind of "rebate". It is a lie, albeit one where the "fine print" covers things up.
- It's after-sale, so any taxes applied are based on a higher price.
- It's manipulative - there are often extra things which have to be done to get the rebate. Sometimes extra purchases must be made.
- It is, as you say, inconvenient. Anything that a vendor does to case the buyer unnecessary grief is not welcome.
- Part of the idea is to make sure that people don't ask for the rebate. This seems anti-competitive.
Bravo to the end of "rebates"!That is somewhat ambiguous. Are we sustaining our current lifestyle? It is unlikely we can maintain current use of fossil fuels for a century, so we'd have to use other primary energy sources. Are we sustaining population growth? We would have to develop more agricultural technologies to feed everyone. (Soylent green? Edible end of the world movies?) Sustaining technological growth? Well, we have to do that to sustain our other aspects.
I can't see what the questioner means by "in chaos ... socially". The human race has either been in chaos socially forever, or we are not in chaos now. Things haven't changed significantly, that I can see, for some time from a larger perspective. In politics, the common way to survive problems is to force a change in government, sometimes by just letting the current dynasty die out. We can't sustain all of the political systems we currently have.
Haven't these people ever heard of Blipverts? It might be as effective to have people zoom through the commercials as see them "live".
In case the young folk missed it - here is a synopsis.