All 100+ desktops and laptops run FF as their default browser and have for the last 3 years. Everything thing has worked out just fine. All of our in-house web apps work with FF. Life is good where I work.
Funny, the spam filter on my Yahoo works great and has for a long while. I get maybe one out of a hundred that slips through. Then you are blessed. But, my yahoo account was established over 10 years ago, so plenty of time has passed for spammers to find my account. The reason I stopped using my y! account was specifically to do with the spam not being caught, as in, a hundred a day...or more. And I dutifully submitted them to the spam filters. I am much happier with my gmail account.
Wireless power certainly should have a future if a single standard was achieved. It would be nice to be able to sit my child's toys near the charging station and have them charge themselves. No more fuss with changing batteries every month. No risk of losing the AC adapter.
And it can certainly be made efficient and safe by using a focus beam to the device being charged. We are surrounded by RF signals everywhere we go. What is one more RF signal?
But, a lot of people DO leave their cars unlocked with the keys inside. Ever pull up to a gas station and find a running car...but no one is in it? It just all depends on where you live. In some places, it is quite safe to leave everything unlocked.
How could I have missed something so obvious? Microsoft should hire you for their sales team. If they did, everyone running XP would be upgrading to Vista. Just call me a disgruntled former user of Yahoo! Mail.
So they've put in a working spam filter? Whoa! Slow down there, partner! Let's not get ahead of ourselves. First we need to be able to see all of our inbox spam in an orderly fashion before we can begin ignoring it.
This could be a silly question that doesn't take into account the economic viability of getting computer time or printing out documents back then, but why would you even need (or want) to use a typewriter if you had regular access to a computer? Set you Way Back Machine to 1985, the first year I touched a C-64. Until that following Christmas, I had to depend on the 20 machines in the "computer" room, which was also a math class. The old Selectrics were the only other option. But, once I had my own, I never touched a typewriter again. In 1989, when I started at Miami University, I had to relearn how to type on a QWERTY keyboard. I discovered IRC, FTP, Gopher and many other wonderous things. And Xyzzy. Those were the days. So, it was more like 4 years, not 10 as I snarked in my first post.
Ralph Nader just fell out of his chair. No he wouldn't, because he would be wearing a seat belt. But, in reading the press released, it mentions "...with safety features such as crumple zones..." Where>! To have crumple zones, you actually some car around you.
The fact that the C64 keyboard wasn't fully QWERTY bugged me. I had been required to take a typing class in highschool before being able to take the computer class, only to have to relearn the keyboard. What did this ultimately mean? I did not use a normal typewriter for the next 10 years.
So, instead of innovating a new product that would compete for market share, litigation is now the preferred route? Honestly, I don't see the point in suing Apple. I don't own an iPod, nor do I plan to, but the fact they won't play a competitor proprietary format does not seem too terribly offensive. The iPod plays standard MP3's, yes? So, who needs WMA at that point?
The electronics are dirt cheap in the quantities consumer electronics use them. Why do we have to choose just one format? I want a combo player that will play ALL of the formats.
From the article, they claim, "...Snow told investigating agents that she and Dooley were standing in the driveway on November 8 and "taking turns shining the laser around watching the tracers in the sky.""
If they are telling the truth, then this was a horrible accident. If they are telling a lie to protect themselves from harsher punishment, then harsher punishment they should get. Unless a third person can come forward and state that harmful intent was desired, then the judge will have to go on the sworn testimony of the two.
Just because a person did not intent to do harm when harm occurred, should not protection from some form of punishment. This couple was operating a possibly dangerous device in a definitely unsafe manner. Should they get 20 years and a $250,000 fine? No. Let's reserve that for the people who had intent to harm. IMHO, they should just be fined and the lasers taken away. Our jails are already full all over the country.
Since when is "protecting trade secrets" the same as "censorship". I think it's time for/. to abandon the tag feature. I completely agree. Companies have the right to have their technology projects remain at whatever secret level they wish. But, the people who would call this censorship probably also don't think that sharing songs off their CD for free with the internet is wrong.
Have the criteria for vaporware sunken so low as to have to include quack technology? People have been hailing perpetual motion machines for centuries. Sure something of more substance could have been #10.
Realistic Duke Nukem fans have long accepted that DNF is only theory. Crazy DN fans continue to believe that DNF will be released. I am happy with DN3D on DOS.
Seems fair to me that if other media broadcasters pay a performance fee, that so should broadcast radio. It also seems fair that the artists should be paid by the company that they produced the product for. I may be an optimist, but I don't think that the record labels will willingly change their practices this far into the game.
This would seem to me yet another chance for a new record label to be established that would actually PAY its artists to really create a foot-hold. And who cares that the big media have so much control over the CD distribution when the Internet is the future of music delivery. Most of the music stores in my area have closed up, or been merged into a bigger store.
At this point, does an artist who just wants to sell their music really need the large labels? They just need access to a good sound studio for a short time and then begin selling their music for 99 cents a download. Touring seems like an awful lot of work for an artist. If the artist is any good, that goodness will spread by word of mouth and other methods of free advertisement. The bad artist will go broke and go away and stop cluttering up the music gene pool.
Voila! Problem solved. When a user submits a search, don't log it. Privacy maintained. This will, of course, make gathering statistics a tad difficult since nothing will be logged.
A lot of these books would languish in obscurity, only to be touched by very few people. Now the information is available via search, which means even more useful information can be had and these lost "works" might finally serve the purpose they were meant to serve...to educate the masses.
Printed books have their place, and does the digital library. The quality of our information is based on easily it can be accessed. A report written based on 3 sources the old way, might benefit from having 100 sources that were quickly and efficiently found digitally.
Poor countries will benefit from this digitization the most. A country's government could might not be able to afford to build a library and buy 1.5 million books, but now they don't have to.
Have you also noticed how central New Jersey seems to get an unproportionally high amount of freak medical conditions and epidemics? Is death by cement boots a medical condition or epidemic?
A person goes to jail as punishment. Once out, that punishment should not continue, with society treating the person as a pariah. That leads to recidivism. Not all crimes make that person a danger to be avoided. There are some crimes, yes, that if the person committed them, might make you pause to trust them in that situation again. But, let us not treat the background check as a magic bullet.
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All 100+ desktops and laptops run FF as their default browser and have for the last 3 years. Everything thing has worked out just fine. All of our in-house web apps work with FF. Life is good where I work.
Oookay, forgot some words in there.
Sheesh!
It is a way of helping POORER neighbors who cannot AFFORD THE MONTHLY COST of internet access.
Sharing your wifi AP is also a way of helping your neighbors who cannot internet access.
Wireless power certainly should have a future if a single standard was achieved. It would be nice to be able to sit my child's toys near the charging station and have them charge themselves. No more fuss with changing batteries every month. No risk of losing the AC adapter.
And it can certainly be made efficient and safe by using a focus beam to the device being charged. We are surrounded by RF signals everywhere we go. What is one more RF signal?
But, a lot of people DO leave their cars unlocked with the keys inside. Ever pull up to a gas station and find a running car...but no one is in it? It just all depends on where you live. In some places, it is quite safe to leave everything unlocked.
The fact that the C64 keyboard wasn't fully QWERTY bugged me. I had been required to take a typing class in highschool before being able to take the computer class, only to have to relearn the keyboard. What did this ultimately mean? I did not use a normal typewriter for the next 10 years.
So, instead of innovating a new product that would compete for market share, litigation is now the preferred route? Honestly, I don't see the point in suing Apple. I don't own an iPod, nor do I plan to, but the fact they won't play a competitor proprietary format does not seem too terribly offensive. The iPod plays standard MP3's, yes? So, who needs WMA at that point?
The electronics are dirt cheap in the quantities consumer electronics use them. Why do we have to choose just one format? I want a combo player that will play ALL of the formats.
From the article, they claim, "...Snow told investigating agents that she and Dooley were standing in the driveway on November 8 and "taking turns shining the laser around watching the tracers in the sky.""
If they are telling the truth, then this was a horrible accident. If they are telling a lie to protect themselves from harsher punishment, then harsher punishment they should get. Unless a third person can come forward and state that harmful intent was desired, then the judge will have to go on the sworn testimony of the two.
Since the two galaxies were so close, is it possible they acted like a gravitation lens and the explosion is not where we are actually seeing it?
Just because a person did not intent to do harm when harm occurred, should not protection from some form of punishment. This couple was operating a possibly dangerous device in a definitely unsafe manner. Should they get 20 years and a $250,000 fine? No. Let's reserve that for the people who had intent to harm. IMHO, they should just be fined and the lasers taken away. Our jails are already full all over the country.
Have the criteria for vaporware sunken so low as to have to include quack technology? People have been hailing perpetual motion machines for centuries. Sure something of more substance could have been #10.
Realistic Duke Nukem fans have long accepted that DNF is only theory. Crazy DN fans continue to believe that DNF will be released. I am happy with DN3D on DOS.
Seems fair to me that if other media broadcasters pay a performance fee, that so should broadcast radio. It also seems fair that the artists should be paid by the company that they produced the product for. I may be an optimist, but I don't think that the record labels will willingly change their practices this far into the game.
This would seem to me yet another chance for a new record label to be established that would actually PAY its artists to really create a foot-hold. And who cares that the big media have so much control over the CD distribution when the Internet is the future of music delivery. Most of the music stores in my area have closed up, or been merged into a bigger store.
At this point, does an artist who just wants to sell their music really need the large labels? They just need access to a good sound studio for a short time and then begin selling their music for 99 cents a download. Touring seems like an awful lot of work for an artist. If the artist is any good, that goodness will spread by word of mouth and other methods of free advertisement. The bad artist will go broke and go away and stop cluttering up the music gene pool.
Voila! Problem solved. When a user submits a search, don't log it. Privacy maintained. This will, of course, make gathering statistics a tad difficult since nothing will be logged.
Of course AMD has no clue, there are a large number of ways the parts were smuggled in. How is this news?
A lot of these books would languish in obscurity, only to be touched by very few people. Now the information is available via search, which means even more useful information can be had and these lost "works" might finally serve the purpose they were meant to serve...to educate the masses.
Printed books have their place, and does the digital library. The quality of our information is based on easily it can be accessed. A report written based on 3 sources the old way, might benefit from having 100 sources that were quickly and efficiently found digitally.
Poor countries will benefit from this digitization the most. A country's government could might not be able to afford to build a library and buy 1.5 million books, but now they don't have to.
A person goes to jail as punishment. Once out, that punishment should not continue, with society treating the person as a pariah. That leads to recidivism. Not all crimes make that person a danger to be avoided. There are some crimes, yes, that if the person committed them, might make you pause to trust them in that situation again. But, let us not treat the background check as a magic bullet.