paxx

paxx

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Amazing... The number one cause of death in North America is obesity. It would decrease a great deal their insurance costs if they fired everybody who eats junk food. What's next? A test to determine if you've eaten french fries or burgers recently, and fire you if you did?

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Well, Makintosh, I guess it depends who we are talking about. A developer creating apps with MS Visual Studio already needs to dish out $800. Developer tools don't come cheap, and are usually not paid by any individual but by the company that employs him to create such apps. Besides, the licensing for Dx Pro for creating non-commercial non-promotional apps is $129. So, in this particular example, the developers of the Tsunami widget - since the widget would not be used commercially nor to prom

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But if I remember right so do most free versions of OD products and the free DX as well? Kona, did you miss the point? The point being that if a widget is exported with Desktop Pro, the resulting widgets DON'T NEED Desktop X to run. A developer can then distribute his widgets as standalone mini-app. No need for Konfab, no need for Desktop X, nor anythi

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kona, never say never. But I'll give it to you that probabilities are for you, but... one never knows for sure. Eagles have quite a defense, they can stop the Pat's offense, but will McNabb and Owens be up for the challenge against the Patriots excellent offense? We'll see in two weeks.

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I also think that the only advantage Konfab has over DX is the fact that the widgets are cross-platform. I think the way to counter this would be (if it's any possible) to have DX Pro export the widgets as standalone apps for both Mac and PC. Not as Konfab widgets, but as standalone apps, for both platform. Then you'd have the edge over Konfab.

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Besides, there are other countries that a Brazilian diplomat could be affected to where English is not the language in use. What makes you think that a Brazilian diplomt could only be affected to an embassy in the US or in England? A Brazilian diplomat who doesn't speak English could pursue a diplomatic carren anywhere in Latin America, in Europe (other than England), in about half the countries in Africa, in China, Japan, India, and probably a hundre

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Brad, if you're interested in statistics, you must know that to get a real valid result, you need a completely and truly random sampling. Alexa's sampling certainly isn't random, as it targets a very specific kind of people. Casual users won't install Alexa because, well because they don't know about it and they couldn't care less about it if they did. Most computer techies won't touch it either cause they tend to be paranoid about sending back "home" any kind of information. Actually, most Al

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And lets not forget that the earth is round... Keep going left and you'll end up to the right, and vice versa. (extreme right is very close to extreme left)

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What size exactly is this file. There is indeed a file size limit, but it's pretty high and I don't think it should affect a rainy upload. I think the limit is set around 10 Megs. Not sure though, could be a bit more. But I do know there is a limit, there's been issues regarding this in the past (mostly for Desktop X). I would suggest you contact T-Man (pford at stardock dot com), the site programmer, if your file is huge. He's individually solved these problems before.

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I think it will probably entice more new home users. Certainly won't be a huge revolutionary record sales breaking computer, but it will have some success, the same way the iMac did when Apple released the transparent coloured aquarium. It's not powerful enough for heavy computer users such as us, but for the average home user it's certainly more than enough. As you said, few will switch because of the cost of repurchasing every single software, and I don't think too many people will buy it as

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Yeah, used MyIE for a while too. It's a good tabbed IE interface. Slimbrowser is decent too. BUt now that I've tasted Firefox, nothing could make me go back. Man do I love Firefox, the more I use it the more I love it. What I love the most is it's modular concept with the extensions; it's basically "build the browser you want".

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I understand where you're coming from, except that that's what the General/New Releases sub-forum is there for. So, that forum may get flooded, but it's be limited to that forum (and only a given max number of posts from a same sub-forum can be displayed in the "home" page.

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nocoolones, I'm asking people not to judge teens, and I'll ask you the same about teachers. You have no idea what it is to be a teacher. Besides, I seriously doubt the average salary for a teacher in the US is 70,000. It may be the top salary after 20 years but certainly not the average. High school teachers in the US start around 32k, same as here in Canada. And I work over 50 hours a week. It's most definately not the ost paying job around. I recently went back to teaching because I missed

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OK guys, seems some people don't remember what being a teen was. Rules are there, and teens test them, see what they can do and try not to get caught. That's what it is to be a teen, and that's how they learn to think for themselves and not turn into adult zombies later. Eventually, teens grow up, play by the rules themselves, but not just because the rules are there but because the rules make sense. Of course it doesn't mean there shouldn't be any consequence if they get caught. Punishment m

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YOu may want to take a look at Transparent Window Manager". http://www.oreware.com/viewprogram.php?prog=10/ It allows you to set some options to specific windows/applications such as transparency, always on top, always at the bottom, disable input, minimize to tray, etc. It's free to try, $20 to buy. NOthing about custom fonts though, but it would take care of the transparency issue.

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What have you personally done? Does it matter? I am not going to play the "I donated more than you" game anymore than the "my country donated more than yours" game. What matters is that there are people in need of help over there and that a LOT of countries are helping. We should be proud of our genera

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Amazing how a disaster in one country can be yet another excuse to criticize other countries. While I was proud of humanity in this disaster relief, the more I read comments such as some here the more I'm revising my human pride again...

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Not all the details have been discussed yet so I'm not sure how exactly things will work. But as you know there will be individual forum moderators (there is another thread about that), and Mike and I will be also forum moderators above that, overlooking all the forums. The other wizops will continue doing the skins moderation. I tink Mike wil contiue doing skins moderation too, but as for myself, I will concentrate on the forums/comments moderation. Note that it's not so much as promotion as a

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