You mean like the option, "minimum font size (in pixels)"? Or the options that allow you (in the same part of preferences, "fonts") to define the default fonts and sizes for websites? Or perhaps do you mean the option to zoom in on any webpage (although that increases the size of images too...)
You obviously don't know the right sorts of people. I know a couple of people who use it, and I'm a user myself. It's more common on mobile devices I believe, but it's still a more mature browser than Firefox on desktops, in my opinion. A web browser is, to me, something that should "just work", not something that should be customized all to hell with extensions and stuff. Opera does that, and has most of the features of an extension-enriched Firefox. The main thing it's missing is the ideological "Open source is better than EVERYTHING" component, which means that (in my experience), you don't run into as many evangelical Opera users. I honestly don't give much of a damn who uses Opera, as long as the production team keeps making a good, responsive browser that I personally can use without problems. Firefox, however, by design encourages the spreading of itself, as it is in the user's best interest that more people get involved and contribute code or extensions.
Nice site graphics, by the way. Should be at least one record of Opera in your logs now, or they're doing it wrong:p
"(or maybe the zealotry is unavoidable regardless, i dunno)"
Of course it's unavoidable. Gentoo is just so pretty, and green, and full of [ OK ]s on the command line that it makes me feel all warm, fuzzy, and hackery on the inside.
"There was no fix, just play the entire game again"
Correction- there was no fix if you didn't go online and look, or poke around in the directory. Simply deleting the save file for that level would fix it.
I've never had a problem with an "infected" iso, but I have had one or two that downloaded wrong and flat out failed to work after I burned them. Sure enough, I check the md5 sum and it's not correct- download the iso again from the same site and it works.
So I guess maybe either my hard drive is funky (or some other system failure on one end) or this "packet integrity" isn't so great.
omg an extra letter and a space that half the people reading the submission probably skipped over.
I'm almost a grammar nazi myself and my eyes automatically skipped through the offensive letter in your comment three times, trying to figure out what was wrong.
"The first 3 digits are where you were born geographically"
Not true in all cases- my sister is two years younger than me, and our numbers are one digit apart- I was born in New York, she was born in Virginia. We both have Virginia numbers- apparantly there is/was a grace period or something for applying for a number.
Either that or I almost fell through the cracks.
Really, I don't care that much, so I'm not looking up information as to how that happened- I'll leave that to whoever out there is bored out of their minds:p
From the article, and the summary... "Fewer than 10,000 people, or 1 percent of registered voters, participated *online* in elections for mayors and city councils across the country" (stars added by me)
The vote wasn't exclusively online. Everyone else who voted did it the normal way- this just expands the options for casting your vote.
Wow, this comment is the perfect example of some sort of twitchy paranoia. Run-on sentences, "beware", uneven capitalization and punctuation... I can just see some guy in a tinfoil hat rattling this one off while keeping an eye on all the doors and windows.
No, this statement is fully the truth. As of the time he made the statement, there are no games released for the xbox 360 that require the hard drive;p
I like the way you base your comment on speculation, a lack of facts, and a wish to be flamebait.
In fact, considering that you apparantly don't even know that they haven't released ANY paid expansions yet, I think I'm going to have to assume that you haven't actually PvPed in the game at all, and therefore are pulling that out of your ass as well.
Yes, because Windows users have so many choices for file systems, and the average person knows exactly what the differences between FAT32 and NTFS are.
This seems to be a recurring problem when people don't use the most up-to-date and unstable versions of things- often there isn't much work put into making sure stable things STAY fixed.
While I've always run Gentoo with the unstable packages accepted (nearly everything works, actually, on my x86... and if something does fail, syncing the next day and updating almost always fixes it), I had a lot of problems when I tried to use -stable freeBSD. Packages failed to fetch, meaning I had to go hunt them down... one or two things also didn't compile. I switched to whatever the next step up from -stable is (don't remember any more...) and the problems all went away. Go figure.
"it's just absurd to claim that the founders intended obscenity to be unregulated"
Well, they certainly didn't intend for it to stay regulated based on their own definitions forever. They realized laws have to change as society changes, so they didn't specifically write down "Thou shalt not be obscene", just tried to make a general statement where speech should be free. If the society of the time has standards that allow obscenity to be unregulated, then there will be enough of an argument that it's covered by their general statement. But if the society of the time has more restrictive standards, then it will be interpreted much as it was in their own society- not covering obscenity.
Few people these days argue in support of the right to incite riots, although that certainly is a form of speech if you don't participate yourself. Who knows, perhaps in the future our society will change to allow that form of speech- perhaps not.
"10 bucks says the great come from windows users and the shit/wtf comments comes from non windows users."
You owe ten dollars I guess. It works both fine and shit/wtf in Opera, under Windows. Refreshing a few times fixes it, but the next refresh breaks it again (although that actually has stopped now)
"they are stealing other people's work to make money for themselves."
So, by using up bandwidth to display portions of books that search results match, and providing links to Amazon and so on where you can buy the books, all on pages without ads... how exactly is this making money for Google again?
Slashdot Mirror
"But what if it was HIV? Wouldn't you want that kept with some degree of secrecy?"
Errr... I may be a bit thick, but, why would you want that to be a secret?
"I can't configure it to use larger fonts."
You mean like the option, "minimum font size (in pixels)"? Or the options that allow you (in the same part of preferences, "fonts") to define the default fonts and sizes for websites? Or perhaps do you mean the option to zoom in on any webpage (although that increases the size of images too...)
You obviously don't know the right sorts of people. I know a couple of people who use it, and I'm a user myself. It's more common on mobile devices I believe, but it's still a more mature browser than Firefox on desktops, in my opinion. A web browser is, to me, something that should "just work", not something that should be customized all to hell with extensions and stuff. Opera does that, and has most of the features of an extension-enriched Firefox. The main thing it's missing is the ideological "Open source is better than EVERYTHING" component, which means that (in my experience), you don't run into as many evangelical Opera users. I honestly don't give much of a damn who uses Opera, as long as the production team keeps making a good, responsive browser that I personally can use without problems. Firefox, however, by design encourages the spreading of itself, as it is in the user's best interest that more people get involved and contribute code or extensions.
:p
Nice site graphics, by the way. Should be at least one record of Opera in your logs now, or they're doing it wrong
"(or maybe the zealotry is unavoidable regardless, i dunno)"
Of course it's unavoidable. Gentoo is just so pretty, and green, and full of [ OK ]s on the command line that it makes me feel all warm, fuzzy, and hackery on the inside.
"There was no fix, just play the entire game again"
Correction- there was no fix if you didn't go online and look, or poke around in the directory. Simply deleting the save file for that level would fix it.
Not that that's much better, but still.
"That's not what MD5 sums are used for."
Heh, sorry, but you lose. I use them for that.
I've never had a problem with an "infected" iso, but I have had one or two that downloaded wrong and flat out failed to work after I burned them. Sure enough, I check the md5 sum and it's not correct- download the iso again from the same site and it works.
So I guess maybe either my hard drive is funky (or some other system failure on one end) or this "packet integrity" isn't so great.
omg an extra letter and a space that half the people reading the submission probably skipped over.
:p
I'm almost a grammar nazi myself and my eyes automatically skipped through the offensive letter in your comment three times, trying to figure out what was wrong.
I'm going to write this off as a joke comment
... "a myriad issues"? Some grammar nazi you are.
"The first 3 digits are where you were born geographically"
:p
Not true in all cases- my sister is two years younger than me, and our numbers are one digit apart- I was born in New York, she was born in Virginia. We both have Virginia numbers- apparantly there is/was a grace period or something for applying for a number.
Either that or I almost fell through the cracks.
Really, I don't care that much, so I'm not looking up information as to how that happened- I'll leave that to whoever out there is bored out of their minds
DQ'd? Dairy Queened? ...DC'd? Disconnected?
From the article, and the summary... "Fewer than 10,000 people, or 1 percent of registered voters, participated *online* in elections for mayors and city councils across the country" (stars added by me)
The vote wasn't exclusively online. Everyone else who voted did it the normal way- this just expands the options for casting your vote.
Wow, this comment is the perfect example of some sort of twitchy paranoia. Run-on sentences, "beware", uneven capitalization and punctuation... I can just see some guy in a tinfoil hat rattling this one off while keeping an eye on all the doors and windows.
And the liar responds: "He will tell you to go screw yourself."
No, this statement is fully the truth. As of the time he made the statement, there are no games released for the xbox 360 that require the hard drive ;p
I like the way you base your comment on speculation, a lack of facts, and a wish to be flamebait.
In fact, considering that you apparantly don't even know that they haven't released ANY paid expansions yet, I think I'm going to have to assume that you haven't actually PvPed in the game at all, and therefore are pulling that out of your ass as well.
Yes, because Windows users have so many choices for file systems, and the average person knows exactly what the differences between FAT32 and NTFS are.
This seems to be a recurring problem when people don't use the most up-to-date and unstable versions of things- often there isn't much work put into making sure stable things STAY fixed.
While I've always run Gentoo with the unstable packages accepted (nearly everything works, actually, on my x86... and if something does fail, syncing the next day and updating almost always fixes it), I had a lot of problems when I tried to use -stable freeBSD. Packages failed to fetch, meaning I had to go hunt them down... one or two things also didn't compile. I switched to whatever the next step up from -stable is (don't remember any more...) and the problems all went away. Go figure.
"Hook these up via (extremely secure) Wi-Fi...."
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Extremely secure wifi. Haha.
"it's just absurd to claim that the founders intended obscenity to be unregulated"
Well, they certainly didn't intend for it to stay regulated based on their own definitions forever. They realized laws have to change as society changes, so they didn't specifically write down "Thou shalt not be obscene", just tried to make a general statement where speech should be free. If the society of the time has standards that allow obscenity to be unregulated, then there will be enough of an argument that it's covered by their general statement. But if the society of the time has more restrictive standards, then it will be interpreted much as it was in their own society- not covering obscenity.
Few people these days argue in support of the right to incite riots, although that certainly is a form of speech if you don't participate yourself. Who knows, perhaps in the future our society will change to allow that form of speech- perhaps not.
"10 bucks says the great come from windows users and the shit/wtf comments comes from non windows users."
You owe ten dollars I guess. It works both fine and shit/wtf in Opera, under Windows. Refreshing a few times fixes it, but the next refresh breaks it again (although that actually has stopped now)
"they are stealing other people's work to make money for themselves."
So, by using up bandwidth to display portions of books that search results match, and providing links to Amazon and so on where you can buy the books, all on pages without ads... how exactly is this making money for Google again?
"No game had ever made me want revenge like that before."
Yeah, I got that with the beginning of Fable after I got it for the PC recently. Goddamn bandits.
"Episodic content should not be sold at full price."
You mean like Halo and Halo 2? I fully agree.
"Gmail Notifier"
It's called "RSS". Gmail uses atom I believe.
"DictionarySearch"
Dunno what this is, but do you mean like when you double-click on a word in opera then choose 'dictionary'? Or perhaps 'encyclopedia'?
Works perfectly fine for me, at 12:31PM eastern time. Perhaps you just caught the server with its pants down or something.