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I highly respect Bill Watterson for not letting the characters he created to be watered out by senseless commercialism.
At the same time, I truly enjoy following Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury characters develop over the years. Those guys are certainly not the same as they were in the seventies, or eighties! But that is how Trudeau made them - as live characters in a changing society. They are not static stereotypes.
We must admit: Calvin and Hobbes are stereotypes. Wonderful ones, but static, unchanging. I highly respect Watterson's decision to draw the line, make a stop - I know of several other syndicated strips that should have followed suit. Either quit when you have said what you have to say, or develop your concept significantly.
The Calvin concept is so closely connected to the young grade school kid that it cannot possibly be developed into something else. That would be something else ... right?
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Browser wars are probably not over, despite MS now using Chromium as Edge's rendering engine...but I think we've reached a point where it's the small things that matter.
Case in point:
When you have multiple tabs opened in IE (yes, IE) and close one, the next one before it momentarily resizes itself so its Close button is repositioned right under the mouse cursor...so if you want to quickly close the current and previous 2 tabs, you can quickly click the mouse button without moving the actual mouse. If you close a tab then don't do anything else, the remaining tabs will then resize themselves to something reasonable after a second or two.
None of the other browsers I've tried do that (and granted, I don't spend a lot of time trying out different browsers or extensions). If I close a tab, I have to move the mouse to reach each tab's Close button.
[Edit]
Granted, you can close tabs from left to right without moving the mouse, but new tabs generally appear to the far right, so as I'm backtracking through my current browsing session, I tend to close tabs from right to left...
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And Chrome has a "close all tabs to the right" option. I use it quite a lot, when I google and end up "link-to-link-to-link"ing.
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True...but more often than not, I want to take a 1- or 2-second look at the next page that came up. I don't always know ahead of time what's to the right or left of the current tab, and may want to keep something opened...
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I'm fairly organised: if I want to "keep" a tab, I'll drag it left, or onto another monitor for safekeeping. When I've got what I wanted, I can close all the "irrelevant ones" with two clicks.
Works for me! 
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I've never liked that. It's non-intuitive. Particularly when my system was generating two mouse clicks whenever I clicked once. [ I believe I eventually tracked the cause down to a KVM switch I was using, but still, highly irritating to have tabs disappear because of it. ]
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dandy72 wrote: next one before it momentarily resizes itself so its Close button is repositioned right under the mouse cursor.
Given my growing disdain for Office 365, I can only imagine that that was never an actual thought out design and instead is a bug.
My latest disdain is Teams, where the chat window is 25% of the available width of the screen. So when I send a code snippet, the poor recipient has to scroll left-right-left-right or copy and paste the snippet into some edit.
I mean really, WTF Microsoft? Could you not at least provide an option so I can maximize the width of the chat window?
So my manager pointed out, if you use the web version of Teams, there is (I can't remember the name at the moment) a site that provides CSS overrides to all sorts of websites, include Teams, that makes the font smaller and the width wider.
Cool, but think about it -- and overlay to tweak the CSS because Microsoft can't a) design a decent UI and b) provide enough simply customization of that poorly designed UI.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Microsoft can't a) design a decent UI
take a look at metro (or whatever it's called today*), they can't do better but they can do worse.
So be more positive, focus on their 'can do' achievements.
PS: don't upset the mslemmings! ...that smell when their weak bladders let go coz someone dissed ms.
* I hear it's called modern, because the brave new modern workforce at ms are clueless incapable of any better
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Cool, but think about it -- and overlay to tweak the CSS because Microsoft can't a) design a decent UI and b) provide enough simply customization of that poorly designed UI.
ms has always been that way Their own products are always lacking in usefulness and efficiency, so you have to download third-party replacements or tweakers.
• Who would want to use windows media player, when VLC and dozens of other, better media players are available?
• Who would want to use ms paint, after using an app like PaintShop or Paint.NET -- or even IrfanView?
• Who would want to use windows explorer, after having spent a week using XPlorer2 or Q-Dir?
I could continue that list for just about every PoC that's installed with windows -- and then get started on context menus and the OS itself.
The only way that ms has changed is in its arrogance, which has increased geometrically, while its products have got progressively worse.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I can only imagine that that was never an actual thought out design and instead is a bug.
Tabs don't resize themselves like that. Granted, MS could very well have overridden default behavior for all controls in the browser, but I'd be very surprised if that was an actual bug.
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dandy72 wrote: None of the other browsers I've tried do that
The first one I saw that in was Maxthon, a lot of years ago. It's a good feature for me, because I usually have rather a lot of tabs open, and having a quick burst of rapid clicking to close a lot of them made it a handy function. AFAIK, they were also the first with the close all to the left/right and close others context-menu options.
It's a shame they (like Opera) completely screwed up the UX in their newer browsers.
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What's not testable.
[?]
Oh, I get it, NOT testable. In the immortal words of DD => "looks good"
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Aw, Jeeze!
Have they decided to reawaken the "information" theories?
They were utterly ridiculous when they were first dreamed up; age hasn't improved them.
[edit] tpyo corrected [/edit]
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modified 24-Jan-20 15:58pm.
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A fully load HDD weighs more than an empty one.
Them'bytes are chubby.
I'd rather be phishing!
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It makes the disks spin slower when they get full.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Quote: It makes the disks spin slower when they get full.
Yes. Ones must weigh more than zeroes! 
modified 24-Jan-20 14:32pm.
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The invariant mass of an electron is approximately 9.109×10−31 kilograms, or 5.489×10−4 atomic mass units.
At the same time, a photon cannot have mass and, therefore, weighs nothing.
It depends.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: photon cannot have mass and, therefore, weighs nothing.
How much does light weigh? | HowStuffWorks[^]
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Nevertheless, "lightweight" is a recognized adjective.
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The idea weighs heavy on my mind.
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Have you never dropped a computer manual on your foot, then?
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Somebody is confusing two things:
1: The storage of information with the actual information, which is independent of both the storage media and it's transmission medium. My Date of birth is "information" (of a kind) but it is the same data regardless of the medium it is recorded on (but will have a different mass depending on that medium)
2: That 1's have mass and 0's don't, or that 1's are information, and 0's aren't. All options in a system are required in order to have information: try compressing data by removing all the 0's because "they have no meaning" and you'll see what I mean.
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Don't confuse information with the various media for storage, retrieval, and transmission.
And would copying a file _create_ mass?
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