"Or, we make browsers so they don't run every damned audio file, flash frigging plugin, executable, movie, or whatever that the idiot who made the site thinks I should hear/see/play with/click/download/execute or whatever."
Most browsers can be configured to do that. Opera even allows you to drag the options (e.g. "Enable sound in web pages") to the toolbar, so if you use sites that utilise say GIF animation you can easily turn that on when visiting them.
This website was a stroke of genius for the government. Before, every few months they had the very embarrassing spectacle of the large wad of a paper petition being hand-delivered to Downing Street, usually with the petitioner flanked by photographers, with the result that the petition and its issue was splashed across the newspapers the next day.
The last one I know of was a anti-drink driving campaign last December, where the parents of a teenager who'd been killed by a drunk delivered 16,000 signatures to No 10 calling for tighter drink-driving laws. The poor lad's picture was in all the papers the day after.
Since the introduction of this website, that's all stopped. These petitions garner nothing more than a short story buried in BBC News. Downing Street is over-joyed as it has cut off another source of embarrassment.
With Opera you even only need to just hit enter after putting "google" or whatever in the address bar - couldn't be easier, no key combos to discover and remember.
You're right, it is now Google Mail in the UK. But I've yet to see a "googlemail.com" address (maybe not many people have signed up since the change?), and everyone I know still calls the service Gmail.
MS are very well aware that 95% of users only use 5% of features and that's exactly why this new version of Office introduces very few new functions, but instead makes the existing ones far easier to use. It's always hard to explain a new paradigm in words so simply try using Office 2007; there's no learning curve. It is very easy to use.
And MS haven't changed the file format since 1997, so ten years with one format isn't bad. Even now you can get free viewers if you only want to read the new files, and if you want to open them in your existing Office installation, you can get convertors from MS.
Yahoo already has a social networking site based around blogging - Yahoo 360. I've used and I think it's a good product, leveraging your YIM friends to seed your network. It doesn't seem to have taken off in any sort of big way though.
I, too, have never used AV with XP SP2. My computer runs 24/7.
If my machine is sending out millions of spam e-mails, it must be very clever code as my laptop's fans never start, CPU usage averages around 4% and there's no network activity on my router beyond my own.
Or could it be that the old anti-Microsoft FUD just isn't true?
Once in a blue moon I do run a Spybot S&D scan out of curiousity. Never caught a thing.
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"Or, we make browsers so they don't run every damned audio file, flash frigging plugin, executable, movie, or whatever that the idiot who made the site thinks I should hear/see/play with/click/download/execute or whatever." Most browsers can be configured to do that. Opera even allows you to drag the options (e.g. "Enable sound in web pages") to the toolbar, so if you use sites that utilise say GIF animation you can easily turn that on when visiting them.
The last one I know of was a anti-drink driving campaign last December, where the parents of a teenager who'd been killed by a drunk delivered 16,000 signatures to No 10 calling for tighter drink-driving laws. The poor lad's picture was in all the papers the day after.
Since the introduction of this website, that's all stopped. These petitions garner nothing more than a short story buried in BBC News. Downing Street is over-joyed as it has cut off another source of embarrassment.
With Opera you even only need to just hit enter after putting "google" or whatever in the address bar - couldn't be easier, no key combos to discover and remember.
I wonder if the iPlayer will use Dirac, the open source video codec the BBC have been developing?
You're right, it is now Google Mail in the UK. But I've yet to see a "googlemail.com" address (maybe not many people have signed up since the change?), and everyone I know still calls the service Gmail.
According to TFA, he's actually married with a son.
MS are very well aware that 95% of users only use 5% of features and that's exactly why this new version of Office introduces very few new functions, but instead makes the existing ones far easier to use. It's always hard to explain a new paradigm in words so simply try using Office 2007; there's no learning curve. It is very easy to use. And MS haven't changed the file format since 1997, so ten years with one format isn't bad. Even now you can get free viewers if you only want to read the new files, and if you want to open them in your existing Office installation, you can get convertors from MS.
Yahoo already has a social networking site based around blogging - Yahoo 360. I've used and I think it's a good product, leveraging your YIM friends to seed your network. It doesn't seem to have taken off in any sort of big way though.
I, too, have never used AV with XP SP2. My computer runs 24/7. If my machine is sending out millions of spam e-mails, it must be very clever code as my laptop's fans never start, CPU usage averages around 4% and there's no network activity on my router beyond my own. Or could it be that the old anti-Microsoft FUD just isn't true? Once in a blue moon I do run a Spybot S&D scan out of curiousity. Never caught a thing.