I know a lot of you Americans have only heard the lines "Remember, remember, the 5th of November" from V for Vendetta and think it's very clever to quote it, but it sounds really dumb to anyone from the UK - you're quoting a nursery rhyme.
Like probably many people, I have the "inverse T" cursor key layout deeply etched in muscle memory, and I much prefer this to having left, down, up, right in a row like hjkl is (although I'm sure others prefer having all the keys on the home row). As a result I use ijkl to move the cursor and h to insert (this also means that touch typists get to keep their fingers on the touchtyping home keys and just move their second finger to i when they move the cursor up). This is what the relevant part of my.vimrc file looks like:
" remap h to insert and use ijkl for inverse T cursor movement map h <insert> map i <up> map j <left> map k <down>
Yep, IIRC it was region encoded. When I was growing up in the UK there was a bit of a subculture around imported Japanese games, and they're not really that difficult to figure out. The language differences just made the games feel more exotic... We also didn't have any problems getting games as there are shops that specialise in such things.
For starters the author of the article refers to the system it came out on by its Japanese name "PC Engine" rather than what it was marketed as in the US, "TurboGrafx-16", which is what most American gamers would know it as
On the first page of the article he says he's from the UK, where neither the PC Engine or TurboGrafx was released officially. If you're going to buy a console on import, which would you rather have, a cute PC Engine with loads of Japanese games or the ugly Turbografx with the games released in the US. I'd pick the PC Engine any day.
I know you mean well, but voting Libertarian is a wasted vote in a first-past-the-post 2 party system. Until the system is reformed along the lines of proportional representation, the best way to use your vote is to vote for the party you dislike least out of the big 2. If you hate Bush put your pride to one side for a moment and vote Democrat.
May I ask what country you come from? I ask that because Clinton is widely regarded as one of the most popular American presidents outside the US. Oh, and for the record, I'm not American either.
No, because they'll be using the data to build more of a profile about you. Now they'll know what you search for, what you talk about in your emails and what you watch on TV. The more comprehensive the profile the more they can tailor the ads they show you to match your interests.
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"The more intelligent, more healthy person will likely have more healthy intelligent children"
Yes, that's the theory, but in reality it seems to be the less intelligent people who are having all the kids while smarter professional couples have less or no children...
For one thing because it takes up too much space where the title of the page should be.
Use a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl/Cmd-W.
Why don't you follow your own advice? - earlier you said "I HATE when I want to close a background tab and I have to move over and click on the tab to make it active, then move over and click a close box way off on the far right". If you used the keyboard shortcut you wouldn't have that problem, and the rest of us would be able to read more of the tab's text.
I do worry that we're targeting unsophistcated users at the expense of the smart ones. The GNOME project has managed to dumb itself down far too much and I worry that Firefox is doing the same...:(
It is for me. Often I'll find an interesting page with lots of links and open many of those links in seperate tabs. When I'm done I'll want to close all the tabs and return to the original page (a bit like pushing and popping items off a stack). The current system works perfectly for this.
"there is now a separate little red 'X' button for each browser tab"
This is a mistake usability wise. The previous system of having a close button on the far right of the tab row was much easier to use as it does not move as tabs are added and removed. I wish these people would read some books on usability!
In the UK, the Tory party used to not only reduce taxes, but also reduce interest rates before an election to reduce the mortgage repayments of middle class voters. Unfortunately (and unsurprisingly to anyone with half a clue) the British economic cycle did not match the election cycle, and over time the results were disastrous.
Despite the fact that I despise Blair now, when he and his party came into power in 1997 they did a smart thing by passing control of interest rates to the Bank of England.
"the greatest danger to global security is the irrational belief system of the American people and their politicians"
That's one of them. I would add to it the irrational belief system of the Muslims and the irrational belief system of the Zionists. Hmm - anyone spot a trend here?
Good - as a society we're far too tolerant of religion. If I said that I seriously believed that 2 plus 2 equals 5, people would say I was stupid or mad, and yet when people say they believe in unprovable invisible supernatural powers we stop being critical. Religion is far too dangerous for society to not scrutinise it.
MS-Excel, by the way, does *NOT* do this in it's SUM() function, if you feed it a "large" number and *many* "small" numbers, you get horrendously wrong results.
This caused some big problems for me in a previous job. I was using something similar to server-side javascript to generate financial reports (including summing and currency conversion) which the customer was testing by trying to get the same results in Excel. I knew there was a floating point issue in my code, but even after I fixed it it didn't match the customer's Excel spreadsheet. Imagine trying to tell a customer that the problem is with Excel!:(
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Try and get hold of Bomberman 94 for the PC Engine - IMO the best version of that game...
Come on guys, April was ages ago - the clip clearly states "10-4-06 Comedy Central" at the end ;)
No, that was about Catholic terrorists trying to destroy the British parliament.
Don't be so sure. As an atheist, there's no way I want the mother of my children passing any superstitious nonsense on to our kids.
it's fleece was white as snow.
I know a lot of you Americans have only heard the lines "Remember, remember, the 5th of November" from V for Vendetta and think it's very clever to quote it, but it sounds really dumb to anyone from the UK - you're quoting a nursery rhyme.
Yep, IIRC it was region encoded. When I was growing up in the UK there was a bit of a subculture around imported Japanese games, and they're not really that difficult to figure out. The language differences just made the games feel more exotic... We also didn't have any problems getting games as there are shops that specialise in such things.
I've heard interesting things about MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workbench), but never used it myself.
Anyone got any ideas where I can find a copy and how I can play with it?
I know you mean well, but voting Libertarian is a wasted vote in a first-past-the-post 2 party system. Until the system is reformed along the lines of proportional representation, the best way to use your vote is to vote for the party you dislike least out of the big 2. If you hate Bush put your pride to one side for a moment and vote Democrat.
May I ask what country you come from? I ask that because Clinton is widely regarded as one of the most popular American presidents outside the US. Oh, and for the record, I'm not American either.
No, because they'll be using the data to build more of a profile about you. Now they'll know what you search for, what you talk about in your emails and what you watch on TV. The more comprehensive the profile the more they can tailor the ads they show you to match your interests.
"The more intelligent, more healthy person will likely have more healthy intelligent children"
Yes, that's the theory, but in reality it seems to be the less intelligent people who are having all the kids while smarter professional couples have less or no children...
Why shouldn't each tab have its own close box?
For one thing because it takes up too much space where the title of the page should be.
Use a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl/Cmd-W.
Why don't you follow your own advice? - earlier you said "I HATE when I want to close a background tab and I have to move over and click on the tab to make it active, then move over and click a close box way off on the far right". If you used the keyboard shortcut you wouldn't have that problem, and the rest of us would be able to read more of the tab's text.
Another problem is it will reduce the amount of space reserved for the title of each page. I typically have > 15 tabs open at a time :(
I do worry that we're targeting unsophistcated users at the expense of the smart ones. The GNOME project has managed to dumb itself down far too much and I worry that Firefox is doing the same... :(
Just because other broswers do it that doesn't automatically make it better!
"is this a common use case? "
It is for me. Often I'll find an interesting page with lots of links and open many of those links in seperate tabs. When I'm done I'll want to close all the tabs and return to the original page (a bit like pushing and popping items off a stack). The current system works perfectly for this.
"there is now a separate little red 'X' button for each browser tab"
This is a mistake usability wise. The previous system of having a close button on the far right of the tab row was much easier to use as it does not move as tabs are added and removed. I wish these people would read some books on usability!
In the UK, the Tory party used to not only reduce taxes, but also reduce interest rates before an election to reduce the mortgage repayments of middle class voters. Unfortunately (and unsurprisingly to anyone with half a clue) the British economic cycle did not match the election cycle, and over time the results were disastrous.
Despite the fact that I despise Blair now, when he and his party came into power in 1997 they did a smart thing by passing control of interest rates to the Bank of England.
"the greatest danger to global security is the irrational belief system of the American people and their politicians"
That's one of them. I would add to it the irrational belief system of the Muslims and the irrational belief system of the Zionists. Hmm - anyone spot a trend here?
"Science threatens their faith."
Good - as a society we're far too tolerant of religion. If I said that I seriously believed that 2 plus 2 equals 5, people would say I was stupid or mad, and yet when people say they believe in unprovable invisible supernatural powers we stop being critical. Religion is far too dangerous for society to not scrutinise it.
Watch this for a much better explanation.
"Monotheistic religions breed intolerance"
They're all nonsense, monotheistic or not. Watch this to see why we should be more critical of religion...
MS-Excel, by the way, does *NOT* do this in it's SUM() function, if you feed it a "large" number and *many* "small" numbers, you get horrendously wrong results.
:(
This caused some big problems for me in a previous job. I was using something similar to server-side javascript to generate financial reports (including summing and currency conversion) which the customer was testing by trying to get the same results in Excel. I knew there was a floating point issue in my code, but even after I fixed it it didn't match the customer's Excel spreadsheet. Imagine trying to tell a customer that the problem is with Excel!