Sometimes they will even hack the FAT to make it look like a much larger drive, although obviously you will start getting errors if you try to write beyond its actual capacity... A lot of people get caught out by this because it takes them some time to fill the drive.
Yep, and most of the time even the retailer doesn't know about it. They buy from gray market, and that's what they get.
Hmmmmm can you please provide any more info on how to get it dirty cheap with a.edu e-mail address? I work in my college, so it would be damn nice to upgrade things here!
The free ones are sucky! AFAIK good, well designed typefaces that work well at different resolutions, include hinting, and cover bold and italic variants are sold for good money. The free fonts on the other hand, lack this completeness.
That said, I still think the sub-pixel hinting provided by Ubuntu (Gnome) is better than WinXP ever managed -- I find a lot of fonts under XP have small amounts of colour at the edges whereas they look much sharper under Ubuntu.
No, no. I know that those "OMG FREE FONTS LOLZ!!" sites don't have high-quality and standardized fonts.
I'm a graphic designer, and I'm not talking this out of the blue.
Great fonts, with everything you mentioned (work well at different resolutions, include hinting, and cover bold and italic variants, etc). And free!
No excuses. Sometimes I think their people just don't ever thought about it...
...even with the UI looking each time better, all Linux typefaces suck so badly? (don't come with the not free excuse, please... there are plenty of them available on-line)
Yeah, so much of my web browsing today depends on a number of Firefox add-ons that simply JFW for a variety of things. Opera could be the greatest browser on the planet, but without AdBlock Plus (no, a manually configured host-filtering hack is not equivalent) or GreaseMonkey, or any other FF extensions I occasionally find use for (FxIF, del.icio.us, TwitterFox, , I simply can't adopt it seriously.
So, does Opera have any functionality at least as good as AdBlockPlus and NoScript?
They are the/only/ reason I use Firefox. Really, for webbrowsers, AdBlock Plus is the killer app - if Opera can block ads at least that well, I'll be done with Firefox for good. If not, I have no reason to use it.
----AdBlockPlus:
Yes! From-the-box! Just right-click any "blank" (non-image nor Flash, let's say) part of the current displayed page. Then select "Block Content" (shortcut K).
It'll change to an "ad-kill mode", where the page itself gets transparent and only images and flash applets stand out normally (also from iframes).
If you click any of them, Opera will block anything else coming from that url folder (like www.google/ads/, for example).
If you just want to get rid of a single banner/flash, hold shift before clicking them.
Yes, also another from-the-box feature. For global settings: "Tools" menu -> "Preferences..." -> "Advanced" tab -> "Content" -> Javascript Options button.
Or, for per-site settings, just right-click the current page and select "Edit Site Preferences". You can also set CSS stuff this way, and add Javascript Files to run on some or all sites like on greasemokey.
Yes I'd mod you up if I could. This can be done using Flash, or even Javascript. Simply many different alternating images with different "zoom levels" (that actually may not be zoom levels, just different images, but give this illusion to the viewer)
There's NO new technology on what's done. This while topic is just stupid...
Oh, so you want me to pay you $5 for something that will self destruct in two days? Sure I'd be glad to... NOT! Who the hell came up with such a stupid idea? Why on earth would I buy this piece of crap when I can rent a DVD for less than that? This shouldn't even be legal and if it is then humanity is more screwed up than I thought. Just because you don't have to turn it back, smartie. Which's actually the worst part in renting anything.
I find Linux more capable on the Desktop than Microsoft. There are often times when MS's (using XP) internal burning software is inadequate - like burning images. I don't know if it's fixed yet, but for a long time XP just would not burn an image with its built in software and you had to use something like Nero. Never had a problem burning an image running any linux distro. Same with mounting.iso right from the harddrive as a cd-rom. It usually required some pay-for software (Alcohol 120%) in Windows, while a 2 minute search yield a few command lines to do it in Ubuntu. I know I'd rather save the money.
A two minute search on Google yields CDBurnerXP as a freeware CD burning tool and Daemon tools as an image mounting tool for Windows.
It might not be free as in speech, but it sure is free as in beer.
Both these programs are must-haves in any Windows PC. They're light, useful, and free.
Sounds like a pretty good salary for Delhi or Mumbai... Well, I believe that 30k a year for the sake of doing exactly NOTHING is a pretty good salary anywhere in the world. Way shortsighted.
Wars do a couple of really 'great' things for research though: Bullshit.
What were the scientific advances brought about specifically by the Korean, Viêt-Nàm or Irak wars??? You must understand, that by "wars" one doesn't mean about specific events. It's about the continuous proccess of warfare, of creating better weapons and defenses troughout the history. Anyway, it is possible to tell many achievements that were researched and put into testing during certain wars, like Iraq ones for example. As it is possible to tell the same about the man landing the moon. No matter why you do need new technology, you'll try to get it or invent it. And up until now the security of a country was more important than travelling through space, therefore you can guess where the big money goes. Denying this is closing our eyes in peaceful ignorance.
And Linux has certainly had issues with looking pretty, which is understandable as talented designers aren't as generous as programmers, Talented designers don't usually work for free as much as programmers do, that's the very true of it.
I guess it was something Opera did. I'm having also no more crashes on the test or when closing the browser.
Also it seems much more responsive, possibly faster. Getting 65 as well, using build 9789 of Opera 9.50b.
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It doesn't sound as bad when people call it Kickstarter.
...that laptops and notebooks were the same thing. Damn, I feel young at 23. =)
Sometimes they will even hack the FAT to make it look like a much larger drive, although obviously you will start getting errors if you try to write beyond its actual capacity... A lot of people get caught out by this because it takes them some time to fill the drive.
Yep, and most of the time even the retailer doesn't know about it. They buy from gray market, and that's what they get.
It's a worldwide huge issued already as you can see.
There's even a "white list" of good USB sellers in eBay.
EVEN WORSE: How many Twitts are EXACTLY links to another (real) webpage? It'll be like shortening ow.ly urls with bit.ly... Endless chain of links.
Hmmmmm can you please provide any more info on how to get it dirty cheap with a .edu e-mail address? I work in my college, so it would be damn nice to upgrade things here!
But... what to do when GOOGLE is down?!?
The free ones are sucky! AFAIK good, well designed typefaces that work well at different resolutions, include hinting, and cover bold and italic variants are sold for good money. The free fonts on the other hand, lack this completeness. That said, I still think the sub-pixel hinting provided by Ubuntu (Gnome) is better than WinXP ever managed -- I find a lot of fonts under XP have small amounts of colour at the edges whereas they look much sharper under Ubuntu.
No, no. I know that those "OMG FREE FONTS LOLZ!!" sites don't have high-quality and standardized fonts.
I'm a graphic designer, and I'm not talking this out of the blue.
There are great quality freeware typefaces available out there, like http://www.designwritingresearch.org/free_fonts.html or http://www.fileguru.com/Rubicon-Unifont/info
Great fonts, with everything you mentioned (work well at different resolutions, include hinting, and cover bold and italic variants, etc). And free! No excuses. Sometimes I think their people just don't ever thought about it...
...even with the UI looking each time better, all Linux typefaces suck so badly? (don't come with the not free excuse, please... there are plenty of them available on-line)
Yeah, so much of my web browsing today depends on a number of Firefox add-ons that simply JFW for a variety of things. Opera could be the greatest browser on the planet, but without AdBlock Plus (no, a manually configured host-filtering hack is not equivalent) or GreaseMonkey, or any other FF extensions I occasionally find use for (FxIF, del.icio.us, TwitterFox, , I simply can't adopt it seriously.
You do need to read some more /. hehe:
You just don't need addons, it's right here for you to use!
So, does Opera have any functionality at least as good as AdBlockPlus and NoScript?
They are the /only/ reason I use Firefox. Really, for webbrowsers, AdBlock Plus is the killer app - if Opera can block ads at least that well, I'll be done with Firefox for good. If not, I have no reason to use it.
----AdBlockPlus:
Yes! From-the-box! Just right-click any "blank" (non-image nor Flash, let's say) part of the current displayed page. Then select "Block Content" (shortcut K).
It'll change to an "ad-kill mode", where the page itself gets transparent and only images and flash applets stand out normally (also from iframes).
If you click any of them, Opera will block anything else coming from that url folder (like www.google/ads/, for example).
If you just want to get rid of a single banner/flash, hold shift before clicking them.
Also, you can pre-block hosts via URL filtering urlfilter.ini ( http://www.schrode.net/opera/url_filtering/ ).
----NoScript:
Yes, also another from-the-box feature. For global settings: "Tools" menu -> "Preferences..." -> "Advanced" tab -> "Content" -> Javascript Options button.
Or, for per-site settings, just right-click the current page and select "Edit Site Preferences". You can also set CSS stuff this way, and add Javascript Files to run on some or all sites like on greasemokey.
Ahoy!
That was a good prog... shockingly mentioning that we spend more per year on mobile ringtones than we do on fusion research.
Solution: making a cool ringtone about how important is to invest in fusion research.
Mod parent funny!
Profit!
Alright. Now just copy this thread and paste it in your resumé. Now apply for Google, and you're in the way to go...
Yeah, but compare that to air cooling. Air is HOW old?
Mod parent up! =P
Yes I'd mod you up if I could. This can be done using Flash, or even Javascript. Simply many different alternating images with different "zoom levels" (that actually may not be zoom levels, just different images, but give this illusion to the viewer) There's NO new technology on what's done. This while topic is just stupid...
Step 3: Profit!
A two minute search on Google yields CDBurnerXP as a freeware CD burning tool and Daemon tools as an image mounting tool for Windows.
It might not be free as in speech, but it sure is free as in beer.
Both these programs are must-haves in any Windows PC. They're light, useful, and free.Lets pretend people didn't really mod you "Insightful";
Otherwise, I'd like to mod their moderation as "Funny"...
Blame the "Females under 18"! Hmmmm just had an idea.
I guess it was something Opera did. I'm having also no more crashes on the test or when closing the browser. Also it seems much more responsive, possibly faster. Getting 65 as well, using build 9789 of Opera 9.50b.