Try Google Hangouts. It works much better than Skype.
Somebody mod this up, please! Google Hangouts has been so very much more stable than Skype ever was when video chatting with our son off at college. Skype would die 2-3 times during a normal conversation, and we'd have to reconnect. Google Hangouts is rock solid so far, and leverages account credentials we already use heavily. No need to maintain a second username and password for the Skype ecosystem.
However, this does shed some light onto why some decisions from Facebook management don't seem to have the user's best interest in mind. I believe that as more and more people realize that the profitability of the company rests solely on pillaging data from their users, fewer and fewer people will find themselves willing to subject their digital details to such a flogging.
Well stated. To use an analogy, the relationship between Facebook and it's users is similar to that of a farmer and his milking cows. Yes, he gives the cows the cool field to run around and play in, but he's really only interested in the milk they provide. While effort spent to make the process of milking more efficient will likely be pursued, beautification of the barn and comfort for the cows is not a primary concern for the farmer.
Sorry, I couldn't think of a good car analogy, as I know how popular those are here.
Linux cannot answer it all for me. My one user has AOL dial-up (for some reason i can't figure out). However, they are many AOL dial-up users out in the world stil.
The problem is that none of the current distros I have found can handle any interaction with AOL dial-up. Peng (Penggy/PenAOL) was the most promising program for this, but they seem to have abandoned the software, and it seems to have been dropped from most repositories. I can't even get the source I can find to compile correctly on Ubuntu, Fedora, or Suse.
As much as AOL is crap to me, it is somehow easier for older folks to understand (until they get their first HTML-formatted email in the crappy plain text interface). I think that these folks are still very much in AOL's prime target audience.
Until I can set up a linux box again, with dial-up to AOL, and pulling email into Evolution (which is easy as cake), I have to support this box on a windows environment.
The debate about the age of the earth is ultimately a question of whose word we are going to trust: the all-knowing truthful Creator who has given us His inerrant book (the Bible) or finite, sinful creatures who give us their books that contain errors and therefore are frequently revised. If you firmly trust and carefully read the Bible and become informed on creationist interpretations of the geological record, you can easily see how the rocks of the earth powerfully confirm the Bible's teaching, both about Noah's Flood and a young earth.
-- Taken from the text of "The Key to the Age of the Earth", found at Answers In Genesis.
Dr. Terry Mortenson is a well-known speaker, researcher, and writer. He earned his doctorate in history of geology from Englandâ(TM)s University of Coventry and his M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.
I would challenge most scholars to review the other material at Answers In Genesis to get a true understanding of Biblical Geology before further discussion on the matter.
Does anybody remember Visto.com, formerly Briefcase.com? They had an incredible cloud storage and synchronization engine that I still have not found a suitable replacement for, and this was back in like 1998, way before Gmail and all the other glorious Google tools. They were so far ahead of their time it's ridiculous! Only 25mb of free storage, but still, back then, that was unheard of!
Back in the day, their *free* service offered a tool you could download to your local machine, This tool would establish a local repository folder for files, which the tool would then handle the synchronization to the cloud. Not to mention integrating with outlook to synchronize address book, private calendars, public calendars, group calendars, tasks, bookmarks, and just about everything. Running this on two or more machines ensured that you were always in sync.
Then, to top it off, they offered webmail, and website access to all of your files and bookmarks and everything else. Did I mention that it was *free*?
But then the fateful day arrived when I was notified they were changing their business model to sell mobile phone synchronization software. I guess free services don't pay the bills.
This was a company who was able to actually sue Microsoft for patent infringement and win...
By the way, did anybody else out there in/. world use and like Visto? Has anybody ever found a suitable replacement? Google has a ton of different tools to help fill different areas of the void Visto.com left behind, but I don't think I will ever see another product like Visto come around again.
[Vizzini has the vision to design a system to assist in monitoring the LAX airport...]
Vizzini:... Then, we'll base it on calculated probabilities and call it random. RANDOMIZATION!!!
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Be sure to check out the approach used in the "My Butterfly Guy" rouse used by some very convincing scambaiters... Read through the whole story, it really is incredible how it all played out...
My point was that if they want the consumers to pay attention to their complaints about photo usage, then maybe they want to start to listen to consumer complaints about their photo usage (ie. directly supporting and advertising in magazines that support the homosexual agenda.
I know that it seem unconnected to the main story about copyright infringement, but I just thought it topical to point out that it would appear they wish to lord over their customers and have their customers obey all of their commands, and at the same time, ignoring those customers who have what they feel are legitimate complaints.
taken together, they are just a couple of the many reasons why I will never buy another Ford product again.
Volvo is Ford. So is Jaguar, Land Rover, and even Mazda. If you go to Ford.com they display all of their brand markers on that first page.
What was offensive to me was the filth in the magazine, and that a company like Ford who has built it's name on family values for years, would find it worthwhile to advertise their products in such a rag.
Seems to me they have sold themselves out trying to find anybody to buy their cars, so much so, that they've trampled on the many requests from loyal family-values Ford buyers of the past who have asked them to repeatedly stop advertising in those magazines, myself included.
Go to the BoycottFord.com website, and see the details of exchanges between Ford and those who oppose their own advertising.
My point was simply that if they are going to complain how others use photos of their cars, then they may want to start to honor the complaints they've received about their own use of the photos of their cars.
And if you still think I am off my rocker, Click here to read a letter from an association representing 78 Ford Delerships expressing dismay at the advertising approach.
I would not be happy about it, but I guess I can give them the right to complain about how I use pictures of my privately owned Ford vehicle in certain circumstances if I'm looking to make a profit based on the fact that the items are from their brand and represent the likeness of their brand that they've spent years crafting..
But what Ford really needs is someone at Ford re-thinking how they themselves use the pictures of their vehicles in search of profits!
My concern is the term "tamper-proof" used to describe the remote control. The last thing we need is for a terrorist to be able to take control and orchestrate the synchronized take-down of planes with no risk to his own life, from the comfort of his own home or internet cafe.
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Try Google Hangouts. It works much better than Skype.
Somebody mod this up, please! Google Hangouts has been so very much more stable than Skype ever was when video chatting with our son off at college. Skype would die 2-3 times during a normal conversation, and we'd have to reconnect. Google Hangouts is rock solid so far, and leverages account credentials we already use heavily. No need to maintain a second username and password for the Skype ecosystem.
However, this does shed some light onto why some decisions from Facebook management don't seem to have the user's best interest in mind. I believe that as more and more people realize that the profitability of the company rests solely on pillaging data from their users, fewer and fewer people will find themselves willing to subject their digital details to such a flogging.
Well stated. To use an analogy, the relationship between Facebook and it's users is similar to that of a farmer and his milking cows. Yes, he gives the cows the cool field to run around and play in, but he's really only interested in the milk they provide. While effort spent to make the process of milking more efficient will likely be pursued, beautification of the barn and comfort for the cows is not a primary concern for the farmer. Sorry, I couldn't think of a good car analogy, as I know how popular those are here.
Wow, that such a disturbing mental image, my mind's eye just went blind. Please no goatse links...
Linux cannot answer it all for me. My one user has AOL dial-up (for some reason i can't figure out). However, they are many AOL dial-up users out in the world stil. The problem is that none of the current distros I have found can handle any interaction with AOL dial-up. Peng (Penggy/PenAOL) was the most promising program for this, but they seem to have abandoned the software, and it seems to have been dropped from most repositories. I can't even get the source I can find to compile correctly on Ubuntu, Fedora, or Suse. As much as AOL is crap to me, it is somehow easier for older folks to understand (until they get their first HTML-formatted email in the crappy plain text interface). I think that these folks are still very much in AOL's prime target audience. Until I can set up a linux box again, with dial-up to AOL, and pulling email into Evolution (which is easy as cake), I have to support this box on a windows environment.
The debate about the age of the earth is ultimately a question of whose word we are going to trust: the all-knowing truthful Creator who has given us His inerrant book (the Bible) or finite, sinful creatures who give us their books that contain errors and therefore are frequently revised. If you firmly trust and carefully read the Bible and become informed on creationist interpretations of the geological record, you can easily see how the rocks of the earth powerfully confirm the Bible's teaching, both about Noah's Flood and a young earth.
-- Taken from the text of "The Key to the Age of the Earth", found at Answers In Genesis.
Dr. Terry Mortenson is a well-known speaker, researcher, and writer. He earned his doctorate in history of geology from Englandâ(TM)s University of Coventry and his M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.
I would challenge most scholars to review the other material at Answers In Genesis to get a true understanding of Biblical Geology before further discussion on the matter.
Somebody mod this guy up. My points are spent...
Yodlee MoneyCenter passes the test, and appears secure. However, my own personal online banking institution did not fare so well. Argh!
Does anybody remember Visto.com, formerly Briefcase.com? They had an incredible cloud storage and synchronization engine that I still have not found a suitable replacement for, and this was back in like 1998, way before Gmail and all the other glorious Google tools. They were so far ahead of their time it's ridiculous! Only 25mb of free storage, but still, back then, that was unheard of! Back in the day, their *free* service offered a tool you could download to your local machine, This tool would establish a local repository folder for files, which the tool would then handle the synchronization to the cloud. Not to mention integrating with outlook to synchronize address book, private calendars, public calendars, group calendars, tasks, bookmarks, and just about everything. Running this on two or more machines ensured that you were always in sync. Then, to top it off, they offered webmail, and website access to all of your files and bookmarks and everything else. Did I mention that it was *free*? But then the fateful day arrived when I was notified they were changing their business model to sell mobile phone synchronization software. I guess free services don't pay the bills. This was a company who was able to actually sue Microsoft for patent infringement and win... By the way, did anybody else out there in /. world use and like Visto? Has anybody ever found a suitable replacement? Google has a ton of different tools to help fill different areas of the void Visto.com left behind, but I don't think I will ever see another product like Visto come around again.
[Vizzini has the vision to design a system to assist in monitoring the LAX airport...] Vizzini: ... Then, we'll base it on calculated probabilities and call it random. RANDOMIZATION!!!
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Somebody mod this parent up. Very concise description. Good for those who don't really know what this is all about...
Be sure to check out the approach used in the "My Butterfly Guy" rouse used by some very convincing scambaiters... Read through the whole story, it really is incredible how it all played out...
My point was that if they want the consumers to pay attention to their complaints about photo usage, then maybe they want to start to listen to consumer complaints about their photo usage (ie. directly supporting and advertising in magazines that support the homosexual agenda.
I know that it seem unconnected to the main story about copyright infringement, but I just thought it topical to point out that it would appear they wish to lord over their customers and have their customers obey all of their commands, and at the same time, ignoring those customers who have what they feel are legitimate complaints.
taken together, they are just a couple of the many reasons why I will never buy another Ford product again.
Volvo is Ford. So is Jaguar, Land Rover, and even Mazda. If you go to Ford.com they display all of their brand markers on that first page.
What was offensive to me was the filth in the magazine, and that a company like Ford who has built it's name on family values for years, would find it worthwhile to advertise their products in such a rag.
Seems to me they have sold themselves out trying to find anybody to buy their cars, so much so, that they've trampled on the many requests from loyal family-values Ford buyers of the past who have asked them to repeatedly stop advertising in those magazines, myself included.
Go to the BoycottFord.com website, and see the details of exchanges between Ford and those who oppose their own advertising.
My point was simply that if they are going to complain how others use photos of their cars, then they may want to start to honor the complaints they've received about their own use of the photos of their cars.
And if you still think I am off my rocker, Click here to read a letter from an association representing 78 Ford Delerships expressing dismay at the advertising approach.
I would not be happy about it, but I guess I can give them the right to complain about how I use pictures of my privately owned Ford vehicle in certain circumstances if I'm looking to make a profit based on the fact that the items are from their brand and represent the likeness of their brand that they've spent years crafting..
But what Ford really needs is someone at Ford re-thinking how they themselves use the pictures of their vehicles in search of profits!
In Soviet Russia, identity steals YOU
I hate to write it, but here goes... I for one welcome our new robotic cannon overlords...
My concern is the term "tamper-proof" used to describe the remote control. The last thing we need is for a terrorist to be able to take control and orchestrate the synchronized take-down of planes with no risk to his own life, from the comfort of his own home or internet cafe.