But Safari as a browser is basically no good. It might work well with standards, but its usability is quite weak. I'd place it far behind both Firefox and IE7. I'm one of the 1 million that downloaded it, but I have little plans of ever actually using it except to possibly check how a page renders under it. Its features are just too lacking.
You do realize that the unified nature of Konqueror, for which you give it such high praise, would be present with IE had Microsoft not been accused of monopolistic practices for doing that sort of thing?
And referring to Windows as ugly while implying Linux isn't? At worst, XP was plain. Vista is quite nice looking. One of the big drawbacks of Linux is the frequently bulky/ugly interface. A lot of that is personal preference, but I daresay far more people would agree with me than with you.
You lose a few more points by lamely saying "windoze" as if that somehow lends force to your argument. Call it by its name, or look like the teenager you probably are.
That's pretty naive of you. Iran is decades off from the kind of technology you're talking about.
The numbers I hear put it a bit closer than "decades off"... But either way, you suggest we should wait until after they have the ability to wipe us out, then respond?
You're forgetting something. If they can detect the launch of US defensive missiles then they would also be able to detect whether or not any additional missiles are in the air. Defensive missiles don't fire until an enemy missile is already in the air and en route. If Russia or China, etc etc, detected the launch of US missiles they should rather quickly know what is going on by noticing whether or not any enemy missiles are also in the air.
I like some of the things iTunes can do, its browse features are pretty nifty within my music collection, though there are some glitchy points. But I am often puzzled why the developers worked so hard to make it all so ugly. Personal opinion, I know, but for whatever good it may offer, iTunes is not appealing to the eyes.
Odd, Amarok may well be my single favorite Linux app. There are certainly other merits to Linux, but as far as apps go, Amarok is quite good and is one of the few things I would put up against non-OSS.
"And if you feel like firing back with the usual Linux fanboy 'I think Amarok is better...' BS don't bother. You are wrong."
Gentoo community is a good reason to use Gentoo. YMMV, but I've played with other distros and gone to forums or chat rooms for help with some particular problem and the typical response is, "What? WTF do you want to do that? I'm not going to help with that!" Gentoo response is, "What? WTF do you want to do that? Sounds stupid, but if you really want to do it you would..."
and somehow she drove onto the tracks, got out of her car, walked across the tracks, and closed the gate - without ever realizing the tracks were there. I don't know about country tracks (assuming it's outside any city since she thought it was just some farm) in Europe, but it's hard to miss train tracks here. If you walk over some you have to be careful not to trip over them. How can she accidentally walk across tracks and at no point realize what she was walking over?
to direct someone down an unmarked dirt road takes a little more than that.
Maybe I missed something but I didn't see "unmarked" mentioned anywhere. GPS units can't just make up or auto-detect roads, their maps come from other sources and are keyed in by individuals sitting in a desk somewhere, not people looking at the roads. Perhaps they do check some roads, but I very, very much doubt they go and look at every road to see what kind of road it is. If a map gives no indication that a particular road is dirt, the guy in a desk won't have any way to know.
Not just a boring topic, but a topic that doesn't match the summary. They deal with the same event, perhaps, but I didn't see any mention in the summary of how skynet would increase bandwidth for the average Brit.
How much thruster capability did this wee spacecraft have? Enough to eject several cannisters of ashes and propel them away? And better, propel them out of earth orbit so as to avoid even more space junk? Would the wee beastie craft have been able to make it back into the atmosphere as planned? I wouldn't think so, and Scottie would freak out trying to fix the problem. Rest in piece, indeed.
The MSN frontpage is my #1 reason for not using Windows Live Mail. I primarily use gmail but I've kept one account set up for Windows Live Mail using Custom Domains just to see how development went. When they threw up MSN as the frontpage I cringed. Hard. When they left it, I decided to abandon my experiment and switched the domain to Google Apps. Having MSN sleeze news flash at me every time I go to check email - it just was too painful.
Why did you ask a question for which you provided the answer? Sure there were plenty of alternatives to Hotmail, but none of those alternatives was really an option for the average user wanting an email address. The pressure grew when other viable options grew, but until gmail, Hotmail continued to lead the pack. And as noted by a previous commenter, Hotmail and Yahoo mail still lead the pack.
It's nothing like Outlook Web Access. Windows Live Mail is actually a pretty slick interface, and runs perfectly fine in Firefox. I still prefer gmail over Live Mail, but Microsoft at least moved substantially in the right direction.
Were those numbers reversed - $456 billion on education and $88 on military - all the money on education might just become moot. It's no use being well educated if you're dead. Yeah yeah I know - the left will scream back, "YOU ARE JUST TRYING TO SCARE PEOPLE! YOU FEAR MONGER!" Facing reality != trying to scare people. There are people out there that hate us for no better reason than we are a wealthy, free society. I'd love to see the defense/education numbers reversed, but I'd hate to imagine just how fast someone would take advantage of our dropped guard.
There are online tax solutions, and there's the good old fashioned pen and paper approach. You aren't "required" to use anything. Myself, I use WifeOS to do my taxes, and WifeOS always handles my taxes with the pen and paper approach, this includes the messy self-employment tax schtuff, but WifeOS hasn't had a problem yet!
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But Safari as a browser is basically no good. It might work well with standards, but its usability is quite weak. I'd place it far behind both Firefox and IE7. I'm one of the 1 million that downloaded it, but I have little plans of ever actually using it except to possibly check how a page renders under it. Its features are just too lacking.
You do realize that the unified nature of Konqueror, for which you give it such high praise, would be present with IE had Microsoft not been accused of monopolistic practices for doing that sort of thing?
And referring to Windows as ugly while implying Linux isn't? At worst, XP was plain. Vista is quite nice looking. One of the big drawbacks of Linux is the frequently bulky/ugly interface. A lot of that is personal preference, but I daresay far more people would agree with me than with you.
You lose a few more points by lamely saying "windoze" as if that somehow lends force to your argument. Call it by its name, or look like the teenager you probably are.
He didn't say you should install kdelibs first, he said it will automatically install kdelibs.
Dang trolls, so that's how they always manage to get first post!
That's pretty naive of you. Iran is decades off from the kind of technology you're talking about.
The numbers I hear put it a bit closer than "decades off"... But either way, you suggest we should wait until after they have the ability to wipe us out, then respond?
You're forgetting something. If they can detect the launch of US defensive missiles then they would also be able to detect whether or not any additional missiles are in the air. Defensive missiles don't fire until an enemy missile is already in the air and en route. If Russia or China, etc etc, detected the launch of US missiles they should rather quickly know what is going on by noticing whether or not any enemy missiles are also in the air.
I like some of the things iTunes can do, its browse features are pretty nifty within my music collection, though there are some glitchy points. But I am often puzzled why the developers worked so hard to make it all so ugly. Personal opinion, I know, but for whatever good it may offer, iTunes is not appealing to the eyes.
Odd, Amarok may well be my single favorite Linux app. There are certainly other merits to Linux, but as far as apps go, Amarok is quite good and is one of the few things I would put up against non-OSS.
"And if you feel like firing back with the usual Linux fanboy 'I think Amarok is better...' BS don't bother. You are wrong."
No, You're wrong! So there!
Gentoo community is a good reason to use Gentoo. YMMV, but I've played with other distros and gone to forums or chat rooms for help with some particular problem and the typical response is, "What? WTF do you want to do that? I'm not going to help with that!" Gentoo response is, "What? WTF do you want to do that? Sounds stupid, but if you really want to do it you would..."
I'm totally disappointed that Blizzard would roll out the same RTS (with a few new units granted) yet again.
Personally I'm excited by that. SC1 was great and I love the idea of re-doing it with modern graphics and other enhancements.
That was my thought. Had I seen something like this, chances are I would have clicked it just to see what they were trying to do.
No, the topic was submitted by an anonymous reader. Anonymous cowards are a different breed.
You missed something - as it's right in the post I was replying to.
I've checked and double checked, it's not in the post. You made up that part.
and somehow she drove onto the tracks, got out of her car, walked across the tracks, and closed the gate - without ever realizing the tracks were there. I don't know about country tracks (assuming it's outside any city since she thought it was just some farm) in Europe, but it's hard to miss train tracks here. If you walk over some you have to be careful not to trip over them. How can she accidentally walk across tracks and at no point realize what she was walking over?
to direct someone down an unmarked dirt road takes a little more than that.
Maybe I missed something but I didn't see "unmarked" mentioned anywhere. GPS units can't just make up or auto-detect roads, their maps come from other sources and are keyed in by individuals sitting in a desk somewhere, not people looking at the roads. Perhaps they do check some roads, but I very, very much doubt they go and look at every road to see what kind of road it is. If a map gives no indication that a particular road is dirt, the guy in a desk won't have any way to know.
Not just a boring topic, but a topic that doesn't match the summary. They deal with the same event, perhaps, but I didn't see any mention in the summary of how skynet would increase bandwidth for the average Brit.
I guess not. Opus Dei encourage self flagellation, while Microsoft does it to the rest of us.
How does one perform self-flagellation on another?
although ejected would have made a lot of sense
How much thruster capability did this wee spacecraft have? Enough to eject several cannisters of ashes and propel them away? And better, propel them out of earth orbit so as to avoid even more space junk? Would the wee beastie craft have been able to make it back into the atmosphere as planned? I wouldn't think so, and Scottie would freak out trying to fix the problem. Rest in piece, indeed.
The MSN frontpage is my #1 reason for not using Windows Live Mail. I primarily use gmail but I've kept one account set up for Windows Live Mail using Custom Domains just to see how development went. When they threw up MSN as the frontpage I cringed. Hard. When they left it, I decided to abandon my experiment and switched the domain to Google Apps. Having MSN sleeze news flash at me every time I go to check email - it just was too painful.
I've never had this problem. Windows Live Mail works fine for me using Firefox under Linux without any need to change settings or spoof the UA.
Why did you ask a question for which you provided the answer? Sure there were plenty of alternatives to Hotmail, but none of those alternatives was really an option for the average user wanting an email address. The pressure grew when other viable options grew, but until gmail, Hotmail continued to lead the pack. And as noted by a previous commenter, Hotmail and Yahoo mail still lead the pack.
It's nothing like Outlook Web Access. Windows Live Mail is actually a pretty slick interface, and runs perfectly fine in Firefox. I still prefer gmail over Live Mail, but Microsoft at least moved substantially in the right direction.
Were those numbers reversed - $456 billion on education and $88 on military - all the money on education might just become moot. It's no use being well educated if you're dead. Yeah yeah I know - the left will scream back, "YOU ARE JUST TRYING TO SCARE PEOPLE! YOU FEAR MONGER!" Facing reality != trying to scare people. There are people out there that hate us for no better reason than we are a wealthy, free society. I'd love to see the defense/education numbers reversed, but I'd hate to imagine just how fast someone would take advantage of our dropped guard.
...Maybe I'm missing something, but one would tend to assume that it is always possible to get cable internet without a voice line...
There are online tax solutions, and there's the good old fashioned pen and paper approach. You aren't "required" to use anything. Myself, I use WifeOS to do my taxes, and WifeOS always handles my taxes with the pen and paper approach, this includes the messy self-employment tax schtuff, but WifeOS hasn't had a problem yet!