of a mouse in chains. But it wasn't any ordinary mouse - this mouse was gigantic and fat. It ate everything it saw, and stomped on the things it couldn't bend down to eat.
Actually, typing directly into the Address bar does an I'm feelin lucky -search, which I've found darn convenient. Granted, the search box uses space, but usually so little it's not a problem. The ability to add alternate searches to the search box is great as well.
Actually, you can have it both ways. Note: there is a subtle difference in that Firefox search will always do a domain name search first (if you use the address bar instead of the search bar) but if you have fast DNS hits, there should be no problems.
And considering that the EU now represents a larger consumer base than the US (although, granted, some of them in countries without so much technology)
One thing to note: Microsoft in the US is dealing with a saturated market... often competing *with itself* (think: if win98 on your 400Mhz laptop is working fine for you, why upgrade to XP?). The new, larger EU represents a nice chunk of potential revenue... sure they won't be willing to pay the same prices as in the US, but then again, how much additional effort does it take to internationalize windows/office/etc to a few more languages compared to the potential gains?
The EU is definitely M$'s big new enemy, and unlike the US, they don't quite trust M$... nor do they have any institional reason to.
A receipt is something you take with you for your own records, and for your proof to other parties. Like those tidbits of paper that the IRS or your company's reimbursement desk wants to see.
I agree... common usage of a word sometimes causes problems. I'll invite you, however (and anyone else who's confused) to take a look at the defintion of the word receipt. Notice that there's no usage that says it's something you take with you?
Also you should not think of this just in the terms of the voter. The government itself needs to have a receipt of what the voters wanted. That is encoded (at least) in Florida State Law, with respect to voter intent (must be verifiable), and what Diebold machines failed to do.
Paper receipts open the system up to vote-selling. Not good, and not allowed!
The voter might be able to see the paper (under glass), but that's about it.
Thats the WHOLE POINT of paper receipts! How useful is a machine if you can't verify it's results? The big thing with paper reciepts is that the voter then has proof for himself that *he* voted in a particular way.. he can't walk away with that proof... that proof is left for verification purposes only. How hard is that to grok?
The Itanium2 (McKinley) is an old slow one that crushes the G5 easliy on everything (using Intel's compiler) by factors of 2-3x.
You can claim what you want, but unless you got proof (link), or name the apps you're running, I doubt anyone here gives a shit. G5's, btw... cost about 1/20th as much as your vaunted I2 old slow McKinley, and have clustering software that can, out of the box magnify performance... lets say you put up your Madison/McKinley/whatever to the same cost of G5's... how bout dem Apples?
While the treatment of Arar is appalling, it has nothing to do with the Patriot Act.
How TF did this get modded as insightful? The Patriot Act, specifically the provisions that were found unconstitutional, allow for "secret detentions" where lawyers could not consult for those who were "terrorists" (in this case Mr. Arar). Well, that's great, but if a prisoner can't see the charges against him and neither can he obtain a lawyer, he's screwed... and that's what happened to Mr. Arar.
As much as I love AMD, I would recommend against the Athlon64 chipsets, unless you *must* have a 64 bit chip. What is interesting, however, are the Opteron chips, where you can easily buy a nice dual proc mobo that has some nice features. Of course, this will cost you...and the price hasn't dropped in the past couple of months, too much:-(
Of course, 754 is being deprecated and all that, but I thought I'd put a word in for what I'd buy... if it weren't so damn expensive. *sigh* Will we ever have dual athlon64 goodness?
Amen, I pay $20 a month to my ISP for a static IPv4 IP (I know, it's highway robbery). Then I have to play games with iptables and DNAT to access things from the outside.
Dude, you should tell your ISP to fsck off, and get a dynamic IP redirector. I use no-ip free service, and they offer win/mac/linux clients... have NEVER had availability or connection issues.
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Firebird has a number of thigns that are good but the last time i tried it out (.6 iirc) it was still.. lacking in certain areas.
Note: Firebird is meant to be a stripped down browser, but extensible for those who want additional functionality. Thus, I will refer you to many extensions you need to install.
1.) When a link has a target=_blank it opens a new browser instead of a new tab. Cannot express how much this annoys me.
Several ways to do this, but my favorite is the Things they left out extension. Adds in some missing 'zilla pref pages.
4.) Cannot turn on the tab bar by default or always have it on
Can't help you here, don't know what you mean.
5.) Doesn't have zoom feature or a "always use my stylesheet" feature like opera (this is incredibly handy when dealing with sites that insist on impossible-to-read-text)
You can hack your stylesheets, but I'm sure there's an extension or bookmarklet that allows you to override your stylesheet.
6.) cannot change it's indentity like you can in Opera to, say, IE 6.xx -- this is becoming less and less of a deal as fewer websites I go to at least "require" IE 6.x.
Check out User Agent Switcher, or a number of other extensions that change your UA.
Maybe they should try a little harder and offer files in a lossless compression format, for a higher price to cover bandwidth and storage costs. That would truly please everyone, and should quiet the last of the bitchers and complainers.
Of course, it never ends there. Next is going past the CD-quality barrier, and doing 24/96 support, etc.
Of course mangatune already supports FLAC, WAV, etc.
If I were them, I'd put out a patch for Shoutcast/Icecast in xmms and talk to the Nullsoft folks about doing the same for WinAMP to stream a "buy it" (or at least "for more information on this song") link along with each song.
Damn, wish I had mod points this wee, that's a good idea. Nullsoft, are you listening? Can you do this instead of that winamp3 bullshit? THAT is where the money's at.
There's not a lot of difference between outdoorsy boyscout types and computer geeks -- I have several friends who enjoy both, and I'm sure there's a lot of overlap between both groups in general. Both camping and hacking require an ability to pay *very close* attention to relatively tedious tasks, and offer a similar feeling of relaxed accomplishment.
Not to mention all the great *alone-time* you have (in both hobbies), while other people think you're anti-social or somthing.
Ok, I just have to ask... How is fully posting comments made by the citizens freely "Anti-Free speech ? I can see if they were only publishing some comments, but not others, or something like that.
Gee, if you think about it you might come to the conclusion that this was deliberately done to dissuade reasonable people (ie, those don't want their emails to be harvested) from responding. I sure as hell will think twice before I respond to another one of their "request for comment" periods.
My guess is that until price becomes dirt cheap, the power consumption is proven to be acceptable, and the reliability equals that of CF, that no average person is going to buy these.
One issue with flash memory that the microdrive (hopefully) resolves, is the max reads/writes... I think non-volatile memory is still limtied to something like 10k writes, not small, but still much less than you'd want on your main drive for a microlaptop, or uber-pda (or your portable music device... iPod).
From Apple's point of view, I'm not sure what they gain.
Perhaps, given the recent push for cheaper (YMMV) iPods, and this announcement, that Apple has decided to ditch the "iTunes is a loss leader for iPods" approach?
Perhaps the content providers are ready to throw their all their eggs into the iTunes basket...
Isn't it effectively flat-rate pricing when they give you X minutes for Y dollars a month? Most people pick a plan that gives them more minutes than they'll use, so they never incur the overage charges.
No, Flat rate, means there IS no overage. Flat rate is usually synonymous with "unlimited usage" (tho lots of ISPs have their own ideas about what "unlimited" means). Flat rate service is like your local calling plan from your RBOC (unlimited local calls for a fixed price), or for example, as the article states, cable/DSL providers who charge fixed monthly fees for effectively unlimited bytes. X minutes for Y dollars is by no means flat rate. Overage exists, and most mobile users have been burned by it.
This practice (of selling "pro" and "anti" products) is accepted in other markets. Not saying it's right, just saying it happens:
1)The telephone companies sell Caller ID *and* CallerID-block.
2) Supermarkets sell SlimFast AND chocolate doughnuts. Mmmmmm. Doughnuts.
However, in both your examples, the store/seller can exist without both of these services, they are just "sugar" for their cashflow. In the case of IronPort, if their cashflow is *only* spam and anti-spam, when the market disappears, they're out of business...
Unless of course, their business plan prevents this from ever happening.
Among the other helpful comments, please take a look at the
tips and tricks page for mozilla firebird (these should apply equally to regular Mozilla too):
I subscribe to Stratfor. It's a paid for service geared towards investors and company strategists and it provides some of the best international and political news you'll ever find. It's cheap enough that I subscribe privately and you can guarentee that it isn't full of propaganda. Why? Because it's used by people with money and whatever news corps tell the masses, the stock market has the right connections to know what's really going down.
It appears they also have free services (limited scope), I'm yet to find out how valuable/insightful they are, but it definitely sounds interesting.
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FATMOUSE.... is that you?!?!?
Don't you mean Certifiable professionals?
Actually, you can have it both ways. Note: there is a subtle difference in that Firefox search will always do a domain name search first (if you use the address bar instead of the search bar) but if you have fast DNS hits, there should be no problems.
One thing to note: Microsoft in the US is dealing with a saturated market... often competing *with itself* (think: if win98 on your 400Mhz laptop is working fine for you, why upgrade to XP?). The new, larger EU represents a nice chunk of potential revenue... sure they won't be willing to pay the same prices as in the US, but then again, how much additional effort does it take to internationalize windows/office/etc to a few more languages compared to the potential gains?
The EU is definitely M$'s big new enemy, and unlike the US, they don't quite trust M$... nor do they have any institional reason to.
They already did... Move Tinfoil Hat for Great Justice!
I agree... common usage of a word sometimes causes problems. I'll invite you, however (and anyone else who's confused) to take a look at the defintion of the word receipt. Notice that there's no usage that says it's something you take with you?
Also you should not think of this just in the terms of the voter. The government itself needs to have a receipt of what the voters wanted. That is encoded (at least) in Florida State Law, with respect to voter intent (must be verifiable), and what Diebold machines failed to do.
The voter might be able to see the paper (under glass), but that's about it.
Thats the WHOLE POINT of paper receipts! How useful is a machine if you can't verify it's results? The big thing with paper reciepts is that the voter then has proof for himself that *he* voted in a particular way.. he can't walk away with that proof... that proof is left for verification purposes only. How hard is that to grok?
You can claim what you want, but unless you got proof (link), or name the apps you're running, I doubt anyone here gives a shit. G5's, btw... cost about 1/20th as much as your vaunted I2 old slow McKinley, and have clustering software that can, out of the box magnify performance... lets say you put up your Madison/McKinley/whatever to the same cost of G5's... how bout dem Apples?
2... ???
3 convergence!!
How TF did this get modded as insightful? The Patriot Act, specifically the provisions that were found unconstitutional, allow for "secret detentions" where lawyers could not consult for those who were "terrorists" (in this case Mr. Arar). Well, that's great, but if a prisoner can't see the charges against him and neither can he obtain a lawyer, he's screwed... and that's what happened to Mr. Arar.
Of course, 754 is being deprecated and all that, but I thought I'd put a word in for what I'd buy... if it weren't so damn expensive. *sigh* Will we ever have dual athlon64 goodness?
Dude, you should tell your ISP to fsck off, and get a dynamic IP redirector. I use no-ip free service, and they offer win/mac/linux clients... have NEVER had availability or connection issues.
Note: Firebird is meant to be a stripped down browser, but extensible for those who want additional functionality. Thus, I will refer you to many extensions you need to install.
1.) When a link has a target=_blank it opens a new browser instead of a new tab. Cannot express how much this annoys me.
Get Tabbrowswer Extensions
2.) You cannot save a series of tabs to always open everytime you restart the browser.
Again, Tabbrowser Extensions
3.) Can't disable gif animation.
Several ways to do this, but my favorite is the Things they left out extension. Adds in some missing 'zilla pref pages.
4.) Cannot turn on the tab bar by default or always have it on
Can't help you here, don't know what you mean.
5.) Doesn't have zoom feature or a "always use my stylesheet" feature like opera (this is incredibly handy when dealing with sites that insist on impossible-to-read-text)
You can hack your stylesheets, but I'm sure there's an extension or bookmarklet that allows you to override your stylesheet.
6.) cannot change it's indentity like you can in Opera to, say, IE 6.xx -- this is becoming less and less of a deal as fewer websites I go to at least "require" IE 6.x.
Check out User Agent Switcher, or a number of other extensions that change your UA.
HTH
Of course, it never ends there. Next is going past the CD-quality barrier, and doing 24/96 support, etc.
Of course mangatune already supports FLAC, WAV, etc.
Damn, wish I had mod points this wee, that's a good idea. Nullsoft, are you listening? Can you do this instead of that winamp3 bullshit? THAT is where the money's at.
Not to mention all the great *alone-time* you have (in both hobbies), while other people think you're anti-social or somthing.
Gee, if you think about it you might come to the conclusion that this was deliberately done to dissuade reasonable people (ie, those don't want their emails to be harvested) from responding. I sure as hell will think twice before I respond to another one of their "request for comment" periods.
One issue with flash memory that the microdrive (hopefully) resolves, is the max reads/writes... I think non-volatile memory is still limtied to something like 10k writes, not small, but still much less than you'd want on your main drive for a microlaptop, or uber-pda (or your portable music device... iPod).
Not to mention, it's missing MPEG4 playback... streaming MPEG4 over wireless? difficult. Streaming MPEG2 over wireless? fuggetaboutit.
Perhaps, given the recent push for cheaper (YMMV) iPods, and this announcement, that Apple has decided to ditch the "iTunes is a loss leader for iPods" approach?
Perhaps the content providers are ready to throw their all their eggs into the iTunes basket...
No, Flat rate, means there IS no overage. Flat rate is usually synonymous with "unlimited usage" (tho lots of ISPs have their own ideas about what "unlimited" means). Flat rate service is like your local calling plan from your RBOC (unlimited local calls for a fixed price), or for example, as the article states, cable/DSL providers who charge fixed monthly fees for effectively unlimited bytes. X minutes for Y dollars is by no means flat rate. Overage exists, and most mobile users have been burned by it.
How much longer until our vote is purely symbolic and has nothing left to do with reality?
Although in the article, they mainly focus on Texas, it's pretty clear that the whole system is being gamed and gamed hardest by the Republicans.
How's the job market in Europe these days, I wonder...
However, in both your examples, the store/seller can exist without both of these services, they are just "sugar" for their cashflow. In the case of IronPort, if their cashflow is *only* spam and anti-spam, when the market disappears, they're out of business...
Unless of course, their business plan prevents this from ever happening.
Among the other helpful comments, please take a look at the tips and tricks page for mozilla firebird (these should apply equally to regular Mozilla too):
It appears they also have free services (limited scope), I'm yet to find out how valuable/insightful they are, but it definitely sounds interesting.