I uses Break when working with Windows in Recovery Console and similar command interfaces (unless I'm confusing Break with Pause, in which case I don't use them).
The Windows keys (for a Windows power user) are invaluable. Dozens of useful shortcuts use them. Windows+D toggles to the desktop (hiding all windows) and back. Windows +M minimizes all windows. Windows+L locks the OS. I use them every day. Also the Windows key is sometimes the only way to get the Start Menu to appear if the system is hanging or some full screen app is being too greedy.
The menu keys? I'm not sure what you're referring to there. However the key between the right Ctrl and the right Windows key on most keyboards is a type of menu key. It has the same purpose and performs the same task as right clicking the mouse. I use it all the time when I'm in the mood to go keyboard only. I don't think there's a single thing I need the mouse for when I'm not in the mood to use it, and that's mostly due to that one key.
The ads were served to males who declared themselves to be interested in other males, and females who declared themselves to be interested in other females.
I didn't declare myself to be sexually interested in both males and females. See my reply to you above.
When I joined Facebook (later than most around me but still quite a long time ago, before most of the huge changes in design and structure) the way they asked for your personal preference data was much different than they way they ask now (I assume). In the past when clicking on check boxes about why you were joining Facebook (I chose "Networking" among other reasons) it then asked the user to click on who you were interested in [meeting and becoming friends with on Facebook] and presented you with a choice of "Males", "Females" or you could check both. I was interested in being friends with both so I chose both. I didn't think anything of it.
Then slowly this preference turned into a sexual preference as understood by the users of Facebook. Slowly but surly the innocuous choice of Male/Female in the database had users treating it like a sexual preference field instead of a general friendship preference field (in my opinion). Then it was explicitly treated by Facebook's grammar and site syntax as a hard and fast sexual preference field. However, many people like me have both checked when we are not sexually interested in one or the other sex.
This isn't something revolutionary or extremely bothersome but it is an odd situation. What once was a database field designed for possibly one purpose has melded slowly into meaning something quite distinctly different. It would appear that those like me who have a memory longer than a couple of nanoseconds and move slowly and deliberately even in this rapid-paced tech world of ours get to see something happening that maybe others don't. Did you realize this had happened?
This also raises bigger, ethical issues with more important databases. What happens when the public reception, syntax and grammar surrounding a database entry changes yet many of the database members hasn't "gotten the memo"?
(Yes I realize I can change my "preferences" in the FB database in this instance, but that is not the point and I am a stubborn bastard so I haven't based on principle and I don't particularly care who incorrectly thinks I'm bisexual.)
That alternative to public arrest records are secret arrests.
What is really a check on the judicial system has slowly turned into something it was never meant for. However it still serves the main purpose of preventing secret arrests.
Say it with me one more time. "Secret arrests are worse than a public arrest record."
15 years on the Internet now, 13 years with broadband. All years running Windows (95, 98, XP) and still no infections yet. Zero. None.
(And I would know. I've been cleaning others' infections for almost as long.)
x2 this not being funny.
It is 100% informative.
This is exactly how you need to learn to operate a manual transmission. You don't use the throttle until you are good and smooth with the clutch. The engine's idle control will keep the engine running and the revs high enough to get the car started from a roll in 1st gear. The idle control valve will apply the "throttle" for you. Just enough. If you can get the car going using no throttle (entirely possible and very easy once you've learned to be smooth and mindful with your left foot) then you will be in much better shape to work the clutch when you are finally allowed by your mentor to use the throttle.
While I don't share your desire for an integrated power supply I can relate to someone who doesn't find current products that fit their needs (I'm the same way with cell phones and other items).
I imagine the heat created is a big factor. You know how blisteringly hot those power bricks get? Stick that into the laptop case and all of a sudden you've doubled or tripled your cooling needs.
Firefox's best part trick is the UI's ability to be customized. All they need to do is keep it that way. I don't have a netbook but I too am very conscious of vertical real estate. I also love my menu bar. I use it all the time. Bookmarks are there, the print option is there, etc.
You can fit the menu bar, navigation buttons, address bar and search bar or even Google toolbar (don't ask) on one horizontal section saving tons of vertical space. See image:
As long as I can still control how things look I should be happy. Give me a ribbon I can't turn off or re-configure (MS) or tabs I can't move down (Chrome?) and I'm not a happy camper. Make it configurable.
To be fair/pedantic that knife in the pictures is a chef's knife, not a meat cleaver or cleaver of any kind. Not to take away from your witty pun, just to say the headline of the slashdot summary and the original article is wrong.
When I said there was one question I would answer, I wasn't being specific enough I guess. I will answer how many residents in the household. That's one question. If they want to ask it over the course of 4 questions then fine.
Anything else is a no-go.
I don't care how many times pundits from the Census Bureau muck it up with our lord Jon and savior Steven they aren't going to convince me to answer 10 questions on a census. There is only one question I will answer on that stupid form, and if that lumps me in with the "evil" conservatives, so be it.
If you want privacy it looks like Yahoo is clearly the winner here. Thankfully you can use their engine and avoid the madness with http://www.altavista.com/
I never moved on to Google from Altavista and haven't seen a good reason to yet. Only reasons not to.
Slashdot Mirror
A couple more of these articles today and I could put together a list of the Top 10 Worst Slashdot Articles of 2010.
Regardless of your political point of view shouldn't the Internet remain free from regulation?"
Yes.
Should ISPs be free from regulation?
No.
I uses Break when working with Windows in Recovery Console and similar command interfaces (unless I'm confusing Break with Pause, in which case I don't use them).
The Windows keys (for a Windows power user) are invaluable. Dozens of useful shortcuts use them. Windows+D toggles to the desktop (hiding all windows) and back. Windows +M minimizes all windows. Windows+L locks the OS. I use them every day. Also the Windows key is sometimes the only way to get the Start Menu to appear if the system is hanging or some full screen app is being too greedy.
The menu keys? I'm not sure what you're referring to there. However the key between the right Ctrl and the right Windows key on most keyboards is a type of menu key. It has the same purpose and performs the same task as right clicking the mouse. I use it all the time when I'm in the mood to go keyboard only. I don't think there's a single thing I need the mouse for when I'm not in the mood to use it, and that's mostly due to that one key.
My prayers have been answered!
Winner for "Best Viral Advertisement for a Charlie Chaplin Film"?
The ads were served to males who declared themselves to be interested in other males, and females who declared themselves to be interested in other females.
I didn't declare myself to be sexually interested in both males and females. See my reply to you above.
When I joined Facebook (later than most around me but still quite a long time ago, before most of the huge changes in design and structure) the way they asked for your personal preference data was much different than they way they ask now (I assume). In the past when clicking on check boxes about why you were joining Facebook (I chose "Networking" among other reasons) it then asked the user to click on who you were interested in [meeting and becoming friends with on Facebook] and presented you with a choice of "Males", "Females" or you could check both. I was interested in being friends with both so I chose both. I didn't think anything of it.
Then slowly this preference turned into a sexual preference as understood by the users of Facebook. Slowly but surly the innocuous choice of Male/Female in the database had users treating it like a sexual preference field instead of a general friendship preference field (in my opinion). Then it was explicitly treated by Facebook's grammar and site syntax as a hard and fast sexual preference field. However, many people like me have both checked when we are not sexually interested in one or the other sex.
This isn't something revolutionary or extremely bothersome but it is an odd situation. What once was a database field designed for possibly one purpose has melded slowly into meaning something quite distinctly different. It would appear that those like me who have a memory longer than a couple of nanoseconds and move slowly and deliberately even in this rapid-paced tech world of ours get to see something happening that maybe others don't. Did you realize this had happened?
This also raises bigger, ethical issues with more important databases. What happens when the public reception, syntax and grammar surrounding a database entry changes yet many of the database members hasn't "gotten the memo"?
(Yes I realize I can change my "preferences" in the FB database in this instance, but that is not the point and I am a stubborn bastard so I haven't based on principle and I don't particularly care who incorrectly thinks I'm bisexual.)
That alternative to public arrest records are secret arrests.
What is really a check on the judicial system has slowly turned into something it was never meant for. However it still serves the main purpose of preventing secret arrests.
Say it with me one more time. "Secret arrests are worse than a public arrest record."
http://5z8.info/refugee-murder_g6m3x_cockfights
15 years on the Internet now, 13 years with broadband. All years running Windows (95, 98, XP) and still no infections yet. Zero. None. (And I would know. I've been cleaning others' infections for almost as long.)
x2 this not being funny. It is 100% informative. This is exactly how you need to learn to operate a manual transmission. You don't use the throttle until you are good and smooth with the clutch. The engine's idle control will keep the engine running and the revs high enough to get the car started from a roll in 1st gear. The idle control valve will apply the "throttle" for you. Just enough. If you can get the car going using no throttle (entirely possible and very easy once you've learned to be smooth and mindful with your left foot) then you will be in much better shape to work the clutch when you are finally allowed by your mentor to use the throttle.
Try reading 7 or 8 words into the summary and you might find a link to such greatness.
Your pedantry is like a breath of fresh air.
No sarcasm intended.
What the fuck does having children have to do with logical discourse on censorship?
The plaintiff(s) accuse him of not delivering on the promised (hello get it in writing?!) $65m but delivering less.
While I don't share your desire for an integrated power supply I can relate to someone who doesn't find current products that fit their needs (I'm the same way with cell phones and other items). I imagine the heat created is a big factor. You know how blisteringly hot those power bricks get? Stick that into the laptop case and all of a sudden you've doubled or tripled your cooling needs.
+4 Informative for a "your mom" joke. =D
Firefox's best part trick is the UI's ability to be customized. All they need to do is keep it that way. I don't have a netbook but I too am very conscious of vertical real estate. I also love my menu bar. I use it all the time. Bookmarks are there, the print option is there, etc.
You can fit the menu bar, navigation buttons, address bar and search bar or even Google toolbar (don't ask) on one horizontal section saving tons of vertical space. See image:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y113/benfenner/Firefoxmenubar.png?t=1273593698
As long as I can still control how things look I should be happy. Give me a ribbon I can't turn off or re-configure (MS) or tabs I can't move down (Chrome?) and I'm not a happy camper. Make it configurable.
I didn't think a password like "sugar" was possible with WEP encryption.
To be fair/pedantic that knife in the pictures is a chef's knife, not a meat cleaver or cleaver of any kind. Not to take away from your witty pun, just to say the headline of the slashdot summary and the original article is wrong.
When I said there was one question I would answer, I wasn't being specific enough I guess. I will answer how many residents in the household. That's one question. If they want to ask it over the course of 4 questions then fine. Anything else is a no-go.
Says something about where we feel comfortable placing our trust, doesn't it?
I don't care how many times pundits from the Census Bureau muck it up with our lord Jon and savior Steven they aren't going to convince me to answer 10 questions on a census. There is only one question I will answer on that stupid form, and if that lumps me in with the "evil" conservatives, so be it.
Congratulations.
No bullshit.
That sounds like a lot of fun and I'd be thrilled to have been a part of it.
Well done.
If you want privacy it looks like Yahoo is clearly the winner here. Thankfully you can use their engine and avoid the madness with http://www.altavista.com/
I never moved on to Google from Altavista and haven't seen a good reason to yet. Only reasons not to.