“Me! Me! Me! Me! It’s All About Me! Me! Me! Me!”
Egocentric personality disorder much?
Zero respect for others from The Zero. Naturally.
In a group photo of egocentrics (they’re all politicians from various countries), The Zero stands out as more self-absorbed than all the rest combined. The guy needs some serious medication. Or ECT. Lotsa ECT*. Continue reading ““Me! Me! Me! Me! It’s All About Me! Me! Me! Me!””
Another (few) Data Point(s) in Favor of the Opera Browser
*heh*
Frankly, my primary reasons for preferring Opera as my primary web browser all revolve around its elegance. Every other browser is klunky and incomplete by comparison. Example? Mouse gestures. I can’t live without them when browsing. Sure, they can be added to other browsers via extensions, but that’s just so very kludgey, and often the add-on is broken with browser updates.
Etc.
But it’d be silly to not prefer Opera for its technical excellence as well. Take for example its standards-compliance, an area where Opera claims to be further along than other browsers. Is this claim true? Could be. For example, its compliance in implementing javascripting (something that’s almost omnipresent on the web) is just one of the many areas where it shines. On the emerging ECMAScripttest262, Chrome, a pretty darned good browser, returned these test results:
Not bad. Almost a 95% pass rate.
What about the Opera install I’m using right now to write this?
Oh, wait. That’s a 99.95% pass rate*
Of course, that’s just one of many test suites for web standards compliance, but my own experience running the standard test suites on the Opera installs I use regularly and installs of other browsers on the same computers (installs that are ALL kept up-to-date) just reinforces my appreciation for the lil browser that could. *heh* Sure, on some HTML5 test suites, Opera lags Chrome by as much as 23 points out of 450 (70% vs 75% compliance), but since that’s a still-emerging standard, I’m willing to play wait and see there. Acid3? On the limited subset of tests Acid3 is designed to look at, 100% pass for both, so that’s a push, although the Webstandards.org site does say,
“In other regards Opera is a clear leader. It is the only browser that supports more than 90 % of the SVG test suite. It is the only browser that implements Web Forms 2.0, currently being merged into HTML 5. They supported media queries and SMIL long before Acid3 came out.”
And for an overview of the extensive SVG Test Suite results for various browsers, including an older version of Opera than the one I now use, see here. Look at all that green (PASS) under the Opera column… 😉
Just sayin’. 🙂
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Oh, Please…
*sigh* So people had sooooo much difficulty using the “old” ketchup packets that Heinz spent tons of money and three years developing a new disposable single-serving ketchup packet.
My take? People had sooooo much difficulty using the “old” ketchup packets because people are sooooo stupid. I never experienced the difficulties with the “old” ketchup packets that are referred to in the video, but then I’m not as stupid (though still stupid in my own idiosyncratic ways *heh*) as many (most?) people.
Oh, dear, does that sound arrogant? Who cares? I don’t.
On a “Compgeeky” Roll Here
Numerically, my last few posts have been dominated by some computer-related stuff. Well, here’s another one. I had just read an interesting post on the economy and the higher education bubble (They told me if I voted for John McCain young women would be forced to sell their bodies to pay the rent… “ ;-)) and was about to click off, when I saw an add in a sidebar. Now, I ordinarily ignore ads (and indeed, have most ads blocked), but this one intrigued me, so…
I CLICKed on over to see what Jerkstopper was all about.
I have to say that the idea makes sense: a strain relief for notebook power cables. Heck, I do an informal strain relief system on my own and my Wonder Woman’s notebooks now and recommend ANYONE with a notebook do so. What we do is simply make a loop in the notebook’s power cable within about 6″-8″ of the plug into the notebook and place that loop under the notebook. It seems to work well.
But an actual device to formally install a strain relief designed to avert damaging the power connection seems like a good idea, if it’s actually engineered well, as I have seen more than a few notebooks that exhibit the problems outlined on the site as associated with damaged power connectors:
Fun Fun Fun
So, decided to check my email one last time before being mugged by the rack monster last night. Mistake. Hit the desktop in my Junk Room (also laughingly referred to in some quarters as my “home office” *heh*).
Nothing. No, not “It wouldn’t wake up.” Nothing. A power cycle didn’t even bring it to life. No video; no beep codes. Nothing.
Left it and let the rack monster have its way with me.
Today, tracked down the faulty component. Finally able to boot and access the CMOS setup screen using only one well-cleaned (with DeoxIt Gold contact cleaner and conditioner) DIMM installed in memory sockets after removing and replacing the memory modules produced a beep code for memory errors.
CMOS battery dead.
Ha! Replaced CMOS battery and cleaned/conditioned all other memory modules. Running fine, now.
Went back and treated all accessible electrical connections (peripheral cards, drive cables, power cables, etc.) with DeoxIt–either gold or regular, depending on the contacts–just for good measure. Hadn’t done that on this machine in two years, I realized later. Blew out dust bunnies while I was at it and just did some general housekeeping.
Oh, heck, while I was at it, a little rationalization of cables, re-tasking of onboard USB connections, and even dusting of the desk seemed in order, so there I was.
Nice, fun Sunday afternoon.
I Usually Get Away With This, But…
…not today. My Wonder Woman’s ethnic heritage is pure Norwegian (20th Century grandparent immigrants on both sides). While I usually get away with it because it sounds–the way I deliberately pronounce it–like “Sweetie”, today when I called her my “Swedey” she didn’t let it slide… *heh*
Oh, well, another lil grinner down. *sigh*
😉
In related fun, while reading an article on PixelQi’s transflective display retrofit kit for netbooks, I ran across this in comments:
…which earned this response:
Again With the Win8 “Developer Preview” Thingy
[UPDATE:be sure to check out a mini-micro-factoid mentioned at the end of this post in a note ;-)]
So, I decided a VM wouldn’t offer a fair look at the thing and took a spare, relatively small as these things go nowadays, drive and popped the developer preview onto a 64-bit machine with 4GB of RAM–a fair MOR machine.
I’ll tell you up front that I was right: I hate the “You’re too stupid to use a computer” interface on the “Start Page”. Already, recent versions of Windows have dumbed the interface down to the point that it’s a pain to dig into customizing things. Not as bad as Apple makes it with its desktop/notebook OS, but close. THIS interface says, “You are an idiot. Don’t even THINK about doing anything but what we want you to do with your computer,” just like OS X, et al. Continue reading “Again With the Win8 “Developer Preview” Thingy”
This Stuff Would Never Make the US Top 40 Charts
Nah. Too musical. Which is why these cows, even though they’re French cows, appreciate it. They have better taste than the American public that supports manufactured crap passing as music.
(What? Am I saying that these cows seem to be smarter than the typical American “music consumer”? Yes.)
Spinning the Loss
The most honest, open, blatant spin of the Dhimmicraps’ loss of NY-9 for the first time in 88 years so far has been Jon Stewart’s asinine assignment of blame to Ed Koch robocalls for the Repugnican’t candidate and Weiner’s, urm, wiener.
Right. Although both Bubba Clintoon and Andy (where’s Amos?) Cuomo made robocalls for Davy Weprin andthe New York Slimes was effusive in its endorsement, the Roman Catholic, pro-life candidate running in a majority Jewish liberal (~75% Dhimmicrappic) district pasted the Dhimmicrappic candidate… by running against Obama. Yep. That was just about the sum total of Bob Turner’s platform: running against The Zero.
But yeh, Stewart (apparently the “news” source for a majority of 20-somethings, from indications “on the street” as it were) and others are all trying to spin the thing to provide cover for The Zero. And it will work… to convince idiots.