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On windows right clicking on a file and selecting delete sends it to trash, right clicking, holding shift and selecting delete skips trash. This is at least windows xp old. On windows 7, don't remember the others, if you hold shift while right clicking more options appear (probably depends on the file).
I am on unshared 12Mbps ADSL, not the fastest around but surely faster than 1997 connection speeds and my experience was similar. Around 20 seconds for the initial loading and 5-10 for each collection. I am glad I wasn't actually looking to buy shoes and just checking the times the content took to load so I wouldn't say this design example is a problem just for the outliers.
"If any government really wants to promote sustainable home ownership for all their citizens, they'd make homes a financial deadweight for people that aren't fully utilizing the home themselves."
This! In Portugal it is common for rich people to buy apartments near universities just to rent to students. The thing is, people who are rich enough buy several at once and get nice discounts on them (investor discounts they call them) and they will use the houses to make money with the rents. If you are just a regular person looking for a place to live you might negotiate a bit on the price but you always start at full price, not discounted.
I wouldn't go to the extreme of making every home you possess, except the one you live in, a financial deadweight but make it increase steeply after maybe 2 or 3 places.
If you want to see it with Opera try the 12 alpha. Just did and it is working perfectly.
Yes, this is more general and might be useful for other stuff. For an actual slime alternative for vim there is slimv, Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531 I have been toying with Common Lisp using slimv quite successfully.
Maybe that user is not available anymore or something else because if you try to download cristina-export.zip it sure works.
The main point is that being hard to repair makes it also hard to disassemble for recycling purposes, not if our moms can repair their iPads.
I agree with you in the innovation part and the article may make one consider if innovation should be stifled in favor of the environment.
In Europe there are huge discrepancies in purchasing power between countries even inside the Euro zone but, at least when buying online directly from Blizzard, the price is the same wether you live in Greece/Portugal or France/Germany.
Having the same price for every country inside the UE and not using the actual conversion rate hurts even more the people in countries where average wage is bellow US wages.
It wouldn't hurt them that much having different prices for different countries inside the UE, just make it so you need a credit card from the country to pay the price corresponding to that country.
(at least there is amazon.co.uk and I am a little happier)