Basically, the environmentalist types would rather have us live without power and all the benefits that brings. Back to caves, hand tools, and ox-carts I guess! Seems they're content to burn aviation fuel flying to their conferences, though.
Yes. My beige G3 (OldWorld) does have OF. It's an older (and broken) implementation of OF. In fact, it's an OF error that's been preventing me from installing Jaguar. The "G1" Nubus PowerMacs did not have OF - that's what prevents them from booting NetBSD. AFAIK, all PowerMacs other than those x100's have OF, and good OF since the elimination of beige.
iCab is impressive in the fact that it's essentially the work of one man. Two if you count the InScript (iCab's ECMAScript engine) developer. Until Opera got into the Mac scene, it was the number three GUI browser for the Mac, and it had implemented the linktag, which spurred Opera and then Mozilla to do so. With that in place, intelligent pre-fetching became possible, and Herr Clauss implemented that too. For these reasons alone iCab is important. Add that it's the only actively developed browser for Classic MacOS that I know of, and definitely the only actively developed browser for 68k Macs, and it is definitely worth mentioning. These niches may be small, but if you're in that niche, iCab is the most important browser out there. My mother-in-law has a 6100, and iCab is the only modern browser (broken ol' Netscape 4 is not really an option) she can run with acceptable speed.
True, but then we have to drag along the physical CDs, and we won't have the one we want when we want it, etc. If our entire collection can fit on an iPod, which is transferrable to whichever vehicle we're driving, that would be sweet.
Many of us do not need the space, and don't have the money. These min-iPods are a perfect solution - all the space I need at a price I can afford.
By comparison, I haven't filled up my computer's 6GB drive in 5 years, why would I want to buy a now-typical 60GB model? I'd rather pay 25% as much for 10% the space. That other 75% is money down the drain.
I hope Best Buy carries these min-iPods. My bonus this year was a gift card to BB. My wife and I have been seriously talking about an iPod as a way to play our music collection in our vehicles (which have standard cassette, no CD). The problem is they're expensive (I'd hate to have someone break into our car to steal it) and still a bit too large (I'm not going to want the thing in my pocket for a couple hours). We don't have an extensive music collection - it would fit a couple times over on the 10GB iPod. This sounds like a perfect fit for us.
Sacrificing mod points to post this in agreement. Unions are a good idea in theory, until they shoot off their own foot in practice.
The problem as I see it is that people get greedy. They go beyond trying to secure their rights to bestow entitlements on themselves. Eventually the ones supplying the entitlement revolt.
My meteorology is not that great, and my physics is rusty. But if the mean surface temp of the planet is around 300K, and we're getting 10% less solar energy, shouldn't our temp have dropped to about 270K by now? I think we'd have noticed a lot more problems than we have so far.
And this goes to show that scientists still can't decide if global warming is real or not, so all the environmentalists ought to just lay off.
Refunds are stupid to begin with. If you've got money to refund, you took in too much in the first place, so now the effort to give it back is wasting time and money. Just reduce taxes, problem solved! Plus, they're often not done correctly. They're not pro-rated to how much each individual paid in taxes, so they end up being another subsidy to the poor. (I have nothing against poor people - I've been there myself - but I believe that everybody, rich and poor alike, has a right to his own property. If you've been blessed with an abundance, it's noblesse oblige to help others, but it's not government's job to enforce that behavior.)
I concur with the spirit of your post. It was once explained to me more like this:
What we call rights must be inalienable, which means they are an inherent part of us and cannot be taken away. Therefore if your "right" to something means you have to take something from someone else, it's not inherently yours, is it? And since everyone's rights are the same, anything that diminishes someone else's rights clearly cannot be your "right".
This reminds me of an old issue of Astronomy magazine that contained instructions how to convert a normal (solar) digital clock into one that displayed siderial (star) time. It made use of the ability to switch between 50Hz and 60Hz AC operation.
I couldn't agree more. Add "paged" media type with a few simple rules (e.g. h1,h2 { page-break: before }) to your CSS, and hit F11 in Opera. If someone asks for a copy of your presentation notes, give them the URL. In "normal" mode, you can have the full text of your presentation.
Thought I'd try this on a couple general access PCs at work, only to find the IE theme hasn't been updated for newer versions of Mozilla/Firebird. Doh!
A 2nd CC worries me. There is no guarantee that the rights protected by the first 10 amendments to the current Constitution would be similarly protected by a new one. The men 225 years ago had some principles, but I don't trust the people in power now to come up with a suitable replacement document. If they just followed the existing one we'd be much better off, and the only way to do that is to hold them accountable to We the People - vote the bums out! And don't vote another bum in in the process. IMO most Democrats and Republicans are bums.
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I forgot about cookie and image filters. Thanks for the reminder. I agree, they are some of the most advanced/flexible I've seen.
I'd be happy with complete and solid CSS1 from any browser. I think Mozilla and Opera are very very close here. CSS2 would be icing.
Are you on OS X? My experience with iCab has all been under 8.1, and it's always been a little crashy for me. Maybe it's better with X?
Can't burn coal, too dirty.
Can't use uranium, too scary.
Can't harness wind, it kills birds.
Basically, the environmentalist types would rather have us live without power and all the benefits that brings. Back to caves, hand tools, and ox-carts I guess! Seems they're content to burn aviation fuel flying to their conferences, though.
Yes. My beige G3 (OldWorld) does have OF. It's an older (and broken) implementation of OF. In fact, it's an OF error that's been preventing me from installing Jaguar. The "G1" Nubus PowerMacs did not have OF - that's what prevents them from booting NetBSD. AFAIK, all PowerMacs other than those x100's have OF, and good OF since the elimination of beige.
iCab is impressive in the fact that it's essentially the work of one man. Two if you count the InScript (iCab's ECMAScript engine) developer. Until Opera got into the Mac scene, it was the number three GUI browser for the Mac, and it had implemented the link tag, which spurred Opera and then Mozilla to do so. With that in place, intelligent pre-fetching became possible, and Herr Clauss implemented that too. For these reasons alone iCab is important. Add that it's the only actively developed browser for Classic MacOS that I know of, and definitely the only actively developed browser for 68k Macs, and it is definitely worth mentioning. These niches may be small, but if you're in that niche, iCab is the most important browser out there. My mother-in-law has a 6100, and iCab is the only modern browser (broken ol' Netscape 4 is not really an option) she can run with acceptable speed.
Why not just use Open Firmware?
True, but then we have to drag along the physical CDs, and we won't have the one we want when we want it, etc. If our entire collection can fit on an iPod, which is transferrable to whichever vehicle we're driving, that would be sweet.
Many of us do not need the space, and don't have the money. These min-iPods are a perfect solution - all the space I need at a price I can afford.
By comparison, I haven't filled up my computer's 6GB drive in 5 years, why would I want to buy a now-typical 60GB model? I'd rather pay 25% as much for 10% the space. That other 75% is money down the drain.
I hope Best Buy carries these min-iPods. My bonus this year was a gift card to BB. My wife and I have been seriously talking about an iPod as a way to play our music collection in our vehicles (which have standard cassette, no CD). The problem is they're expensive (I'd hate to have someone break into our car to steal it) and still a bit too large (I'm not going to want the thing in my pocket for a couple hours). We don't have an extensive music collection - it would fit a couple times over on the 10GB iPod. This sounds like a perfect fit for us.
So does my point. No matter how much money gov't saves, do they ever cut taxes? No, it just finds new ways to spend more.
The problem is zoning and the artificial scarcity it causes.
Sacrificing mod points to post this in agreement. Unions are a good idea in theory, until they shoot off their own foot in practice.
The problem as I see it is that people get greedy. They go beyond trying to secure their rights to bestow entitlements on themselves. Eventually the ones supplying the entitlement revolt.
My meteorology is not that great, and my physics is rusty. But if the mean surface temp of the planet is around 300K, and we're getting 10% less solar energy, shouldn't our temp have dropped to about 270K by now? I think we'd have noticed a lot more problems than we have so far.
And this goes to show that scientists still can't decide if global warming is real or not, so all the environmentalists ought to just lay off.
Exactly. Thank you.
Refunds are stupid to begin with. If you've got money to refund, you took in too much in the first place, so now the effort to give it back is wasting time and money. Just reduce taxes, problem solved! Plus, they're often not done correctly. They're not pro-rated to how much each individual paid in taxes, so they end up being another subsidy to the poor. (I have nothing against poor people - I've been there myself - but I believe that everybody, rich and poor alike, has a right to his own property. If you've been blessed with an abundance, it's noblesse oblige to help others, but it's not government's job to enforce that behavior.)
I know. Very very sad. Even if there is a man of principle running for office, he wouldn't get elected. People are addicted to their entitlements.
You'd think savings could be passed along to the taxpayers. I'm sure the money will just be shifted to some other non-essential program.
May I ask which totalitarian country do you happen to live in?
I concur with the spirit of your post. It was once explained to me more like this:
What we call rights must be inalienable, which means they are an inherent part of us and cannot be taken away. Therefore if your "right" to something means you have to take something from someone else, it's not inherently yours, is it? And since everyone's rights are the same, anything that diminishes someone else's rights clearly cannot be your "right".
GNUWin II. Start out small, so the Windows-using masses don't feel like they're losing their investment.
Turning off the radio sure beats gouging out yours eyes, that's for sure.
This reminds me of an old issue of Astronomy magazine that contained instructions how to convert a normal (solar) digital clock into one that displayed siderial (star) time. It made use of the ability to switch between 50Hz and 60Hz AC operation.
I couldn't agree more. Add "paged" media type with a few simple rules (e.g. h1,h2 { page-break: before }) to your CSS, and hit F11 in Opera. If someone asks for a copy of your presentation notes, give them the URL. In "normal" mode, you can have the full text of your presentation.
Thought I'd try this on a couple general access PCs at work, only to find the IE theme hasn't been updated for newer versions of Mozilla/Firebird. Doh!
They'll never know the difference, except that the web looks better and doesn't crash/annoy anymore.
A 2nd CC worries me. There is no guarantee that the rights protected by the first 10 amendments to the current Constitution would be similarly protected by a new one. The men 225 years ago had some principles, but I don't trust the people in power now to come up with a suitable replacement document. If they just followed the existing one we'd be much better off, and the only way to do that is to hold them accountable to We the People - vote the bums out! And don't vote another bum in in the process. IMO most Democrats and Republicans are bums.
What can I say - I'm an idealist. ;)
But that was the original intent.