Tabbed browsing is a gimic that steals screen space and makes me move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse.
You didn't know about ctrl+tab? That's been around as long as I can remember.
If you change the UI you put me into a position where I have the learn something new.
Are you lamenting the fact that cars don't come with leather reins, too? Another hint: you can't refuel your car by letting it graze in the pasture, either. Seriously though, change is a fact of life! Sometimes change is good, such as Opera 9 using ctrl+t for a new tab instead of ctrl+n, to match up with what every other tabbed browser does.
Anyway, I'm glad that you're happy with Opera 3.62. If that suits you, great.
In the site preferences (new in v9) there is an option to block inline frames. I couldn't find this in the global prefs, but you could probably block all of them with display:none in the user CSS file.
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I'm waiting for a NetBSD/mac68k build. I've got a beefy box they can use to build, and I've already signed a NDA. C'mon, Opera, I want a good GUI browser on my Mystic CC!
They're only "at rest" relative to the moving reference frame. Like how you perceive the earth itself to be "at rest" but of course you know it is moving - well, you're moving with it.
I believe it was saying that 1800 Jovian Trojans have been found. These are the first Neptunian Trojans to be discovered. Being that much farther from the sun, they are far more difficult to detect. Also, since Neptune's mass is less than Jupiter's and it is further from the main asteroid belt, it might not have as many to begin with.
Obviously this would have been the one way to go, if OO.o were being designed today.
WxWidgets isn't exactly new. But I suppose it wasn't as mature when OOo started.
Because believe me, if it were that easy, they'd be doing it.
But if it's "easy enough" that two guys can "yank out" the standard GUI stuff, and hook in Mac-native GUI stuff, then it seems to be that OOo as a whole is pretty well abstracted/designed. The question is whether the developers see enough "long run" benefit to redoing that part in the core OOo, or not. If so, then porting is practially a non-issue. If not, then projects like NeoOffice will forever be redoing their work again and again, and they'll always be behind. Heck, if two guys can yank out the GUI bits and replace it with native Cocoa stuff, why couldn't two (or more) guys do the same and replace with wx stuff instead? Obviously I'm not a GUI developer or I'd understand better why this isn't a realistic option.
I broke down and bought MS Office (for the third time, once for every major architecture/OS combo of the Mac) a little over a year ago because nothing else on the Mac was quite "prime time" enough for my wife to use, and using Office98 in Classic was flaky. I was willing to go along with a few nonstandard UI decisions, or jump an extra hurdle of file incompatibility, or deal with X11, but inflicting any of those on her practically amounts to spousal abuse. After all, I'd just gotten her to "switch" from her slow/glitchy old PC, and just having things be in different locations was hard enough on her.
Now, I've heard good things about MS Office running with Rosetta, so maybe it won't be an issue at all whenever I upgrade to a x86 Mac (the 4th combo). But I really hope that NeoOffice 2 is sufficiently "prime time" by then so that I don't have to be reliant on proprietary packages. I'd prefer to use open standards.
In some ways I wonder if NeoOffice is really the best route to take with regards to porting OOo. It seems like an awful lot of work. I'm no expert in these matters, but wouldn't it make sense for OOo to use the wxWidgets framework? Compile against the platform-appropriate wx implementation (wxGTK, wxCocoa, etc.), and boom, you're done. Obviously, switching frameworks at all would be a big effort, but once it was done it would be easy for everyone going forward, and the Mac version wouldn't always be lagging behind.
I hate having to adjust font sizes just because dee-zine-urz can't leave the defaults alone! Especially when it's a site I return to frequently like this one.
"Just doing business" sounds a lot like "just following orders". Being complicit with evil is evil. Nobody was forcing Google to do business with China. They chose to adopt a policy they claimed to abhor in order to make a buck. Good to see the principles can be bought so cheaply. Sometimes standing up for what you believe in requires sacrifice.
Obeying evil laws (i.e being complicit with evil) is itself evil.
If someone in authority over you orders you to commit a murder, do you do it because you're following orders? What if that authority has the power to codify the order into something called "law"?
Now, I'm not playing a partisan finger-pointing game. But these kinds of "censorship" tactics give the appearance of "evil" worse than that which they are trying to avoid, IMO. Especially when there seems to be political motives. If some news site posts factual news, real honest truth, then I don't see how you can object to it on any basis just because you don't happen to like it. That holds whether the truth hurts the political Right or the political Left.
I don't see why the Chief Executive seems to have such difficulty enforcing the laws. Isn't that his job? Creating a "path to citizenship"...there already is one. It's called "going home, filling out the paperwork, and waiting like everyone else does". So where exactly is the problem? In 1986 the USGov granted amnesty and promised enforcement after that. Well, 20 years later, and we see how well that worked out. Immigration "reform", bah. How about government reform - anti-incumbent and pro-third-party this November. I'm sick of the lies and abuses from the Duopoly in power.
I understand the major.minor.patch system. It makes sense to me. But I've always wondered what numbers like "6.06" are supposed to mean. Do we ignore leading zeros (i.e. 6.6 - 6th release of version 6)? Are we supposed to assume a separator (i.e. 6.0.6 - 6th bugfux of version 6)? Or is this a different system of some kind altogether? It's not just Ubuntu - Opera (and others) do this too.
Know of any organizations that publish the voting records of our Congress-critters, broken down by subject area? With all the obfuscated titles that the bills have, I have no idea how to interpret the "raw" voting record of my Rep or Senators.
You're right, it's the current "politically correct" culture we live in. You don't want to be judgmental, you don't want to "discriminate", don't want to hurt anyone's feelings you know.
Sorry, but I'll call a spade a spade. If you're a jerk, then you are, and trying to shift blame onto your childhood/current circumstances doesn't fly with me. You had a choice. You made a bad decision. Tough cookies. Grow up and be responsible.
Criminalizing the mere possession of something just because it could potentially be used in a crime is pretty stupid. Until you do something that actually harms someone, where's the crime? "Innocent until proven guilty" remember? Just because someone has means, and could find opportunity, doesn't mean he has motive to commit a crime. Don't you need all three? Mens rea, anyone? All these sorts of laws do is make criminals out of normal, honest, otherwise-law-abiding people.
Until you stab someone, your knife is just a useful cutting tool. Until you shoot someone, your gun is just a useful self-defense and hunting tool. Until you crack something, your network analysis software is just another tool. There is nothing inherently bad/evil about them. Merely possessing them does not twist a normal person into a psychopathic criminal.
Anyone else think we'd have better lawmakers if we plucked some names at random from the phone book?
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Says who? TBL's first version of H T ML didn't include IMG, and his first web browser couldn't display graphics.
You didn't know about ctrl+tab? That's been around as long as I can remember.
Are you lamenting the fact that cars don't come with leather reins, too? Another hint: you can't refuel your car by letting it graze in the pasture, either. Seriously though, change is a fact of life! Sometimes change is good, such as Opera 9 using ctrl+t for a new tab instead of ctrl+n, to match up with what every other tabbed browser does.
Anyway, I'm glad that you're happy with Opera 3.62. If that suits you, great.
In the site preferences (new in v9) there is an option to block inline frames. I couldn't find this in the global prefs, but you could probably block all of them with display:none in the user CSS file.
I'm waiting for a NetBSD/mac68k build. I've got a beefy box they can use to build, and I've already signed a NDA. C'mon, Opera, I want a good GUI browser on my Mystic CC!
They're only "at rest" relative to the moving reference frame. Like how you perceive the earth itself to be "at rest" but of course you know it is moving - well, you're moving with it.
What about the Constitution or Libertarian parties?
I believe it was saying that 1800 Jovian Trojans have been found. These are the first Neptunian Trojans to be discovered. Being that much farther from the sun, they are far more difficult to detect. Also, since Neptune's mass is less than Jupiter's and it is further from the main asteroid belt, it might not have as many to begin with.
WxWidgets isn't exactly new. But I suppose it wasn't as mature when OOo started.
But if it's "easy enough" that two guys can "yank out" the standard GUI stuff, and hook in Mac-native GUI stuff, then it seems to be that OOo as a whole is pretty well abstracted/designed. The question is whether the developers see enough "long run" benefit to redoing that part in the core OOo, or not. If so, then porting is practially a non-issue. If not, then projects like NeoOffice will forever be redoing their work again and again, and they'll always be behind. Heck, if two guys can yank out the GUI bits and replace it with native Cocoa stuff, why couldn't two (or more) guys do the same and replace with wx stuff instead? Obviously I'm not a GUI developer or I'd understand better why this isn't a realistic option.
I broke down and bought MS Office (for the third time, once for every major architecture/OS combo of the Mac) a little over a year ago because nothing else on the Mac was quite "prime time" enough for my wife to use, and using Office98 in Classic was flaky. I was willing to go along with a few nonstandard UI decisions, or jump an extra hurdle of file incompatibility, or deal with X11, but inflicting any of those on her practically amounts to spousal abuse. After all, I'd just gotten her to "switch" from her slow/glitchy old PC, and just having things be in different locations was hard enough on her.
Now, I've heard good things about MS Office running with Rosetta, so maybe it won't be an issue at all whenever I upgrade to a x86 Mac (the 4th combo). But I really hope that NeoOffice 2 is sufficiently "prime time" by then so that I don't have to be reliant on proprietary packages. I'd prefer to use open standards.
In some ways I wonder if NeoOffice is really the best route to take with regards to porting OOo. It seems like an awful lot of work. I'm no expert in these matters, but wouldn't it make sense for OOo to use the wxWidgets framework? Compile against the platform-appropriate wx implementation (wxGTK, wxCocoa, etc.), and boom, you're done. Obviously, switching frameworks at all would be a big effort, but once it was done it would be easy for everyone going forward, and the Mac version wouldn't always be lagging behind.
Nah, this site leans more left than right. ;)
I hate having to adjust font sizes just because dee-zine-urz can't leave the defaults alone! Especially when it's a site I return to frequently like this one.
Can we please change this new \. theme so it doesn't make the default font size so darn small?!?!
"Just doing business" sounds a lot like "just following orders". Being complicit with evil is evil. Nobody was forcing Google to do business with China. They chose to adopt a policy they claimed to abhor in order to make a buck. Good to see the principles can be bought so cheaply. Sometimes standing up for what you believe in requires sacrifice.
Obeying evil laws (i.e being complicit with evil) is itself evil.
If someone in authority over you orders you to commit a murder, do you do it because you're following orders? What if that authority has the power to codify the order into something called "law"?
Google drops conservative sites from Google News. Interesting that 98% of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats. Also, Al Gore is a senior adviser to Google.
Now, I'm not playing a partisan finger-pointing game. But these kinds of "censorship" tactics give the appearance of "evil" worse than that which they are trying to avoid, IMO. Especially when there seems to be political motives. If some news site posts factual news, real honest truth, then I don't see how you can object to it on any basis just because you don't happen to like it. That holds whether the truth hurts the political Right or the political Left.
I don't see why the Chief Executive seems to have such difficulty enforcing the laws. Isn't that his job? Creating a "path to citizenship"...there already is one. It's called "going home, filling out the paperwork, and waiting like everyone else does". So where exactly is the problem? In 1986 the USGov granted amnesty and promised enforcement after that. Well, 20 years later, and we see how well that worked out. Immigration "reform", bah. How about government reform - anti-incumbent and pro-third-party this November. I'm sick of the lies and abuses from the Duopoly in power.
So only rich people can run for office? Great idea...not.
Aha! That clears it up. Thanks.
Now if I could just figure out Opera's versioning...
I understand the major.minor.patch system. It makes sense to me. But I've always wondered what numbers like "6.06" are supposed to mean. Do we ignore leading zeros (i.e. 6.6 - 6th release of version 6)? Are we supposed to assume a separator (i.e. 6.0.6 - 6th bugfux of version 6)? Or is this a different system of some kind altogether? It's not just Ubuntu - Opera (and others) do this too.
Know of any organizations that publish the voting records of our Congress-critters, broken down by subject area? With all the obfuscated titles that the bills have, I have no idea how to interpret the "raw" voting record of my Rep or Senators.
Yeah, just like I'm so glad that the gov't is so concerned about when I have a sniffle, that it wants to register my purchase of Sudafed...
I know a guy who has a gas chamber. He's a bird farmer, and that's how he puts them down before they are made into...whatever they get made into.
You're right, it's the current "politically correct" culture we live in. You don't want to be judgmental, you don't want to "discriminate", don't want to hurt anyone's feelings you know.
Sorry, but I'll call a spade a spade. If you're a jerk, then you are, and trying to shift blame onto your childhood/current circumstances doesn't fly with me. You had a choice. You made a bad decision. Tough cookies. Grow up and be responsible.
Criminalizing the mere possession of something just because it could potentially be used in a crime is pretty stupid. Until you do something that actually harms someone, where's the crime? "Innocent until proven guilty" remember? Just because someone has means, and could find opportunity, doesn't mean he has motive to commit a crime. Don't you need all three? Mens rea, anyone? All these sorts of laws do is make criminals out of normal, honest, otherwise-law-abiding people.
Until you stab someone, your knife is just a useful cutting tool. Until you shoot someone, your gun is just a useful self-defense and hunting tool. Until you crack something, your network analysis software is just another tool. There is nothing inherently bad/evil about them. Merely possessing them does not twist a normal person into a psychopathic criminal.
Anyone else think we'd have better lawmakers if we plucked some names at random from the phone book?
I will finally be able to run Tomcat on my NetBSD/mac68k box without waiting for Kaffe to mature. Hooray!
Yup, the D/R party is a Duopoly. One beast with two heads.