Google spidered my comment already? Wow, that was quick! Having searched that phrase for the first time it would appear that either a) The Sun has already removed itself from Google or b) The Sun doesn't ever call itself that (and, strangely, neither has anyone else).
Exactly - and I'm surprised there isn't a "andnothingofvaluewaslost" tag on this already. Murdoch and The Sun may be pulling out of Google's search index? Not that I've ever encountered any of their pages on their search*, but surely it is a good thing if Google is tidied up a bit?
* I can't think of time I ever felt the inclination to search "ugly fake women" or "skanky townie tarts" or "sensationalised news for builders"
[voice-of-90%-of-Britons]Because it is 'free' money and I can buy stuff I wouldn't otherwise be able to afford[/voice-of-90%-of-Britons]
I agree, it seems completely stupid. The only reason I have a credit card is for the extra protection when buying online versus a debit card, and so that any expenses I incur on company business get paid to me before I pay them to the credit card company! If you can't afford it then you can't afford it, so why make yourself pay more than is necessary for non-essential items as you rack up interest charges?
Washing fruit? Pah, I just give apples a quick rub on my t-shirt and then bite it;)
TBH it has been a long time since I last saw one with a label stuck on it, but maybe that's because I mainly get them at corporate lunches and from pre-picked bags rather than individual ones.
No, not overly new (a couple of years registered, I think), I just visit too many forums and get used to BBCode:) I keep trying to use BBCode in my Trac wiki occasionall as well.
Erm, that'd be "Insert > Reference > Footnote", which auto-numbers by default and lets you choose numbers, numerals, letters or symbols. TBH there's some bits like that and cross-references that I prefer in OpenOffice.
Really? I worked as a dev at a company who liked their MS technology and were one of the first (if not the first) in the UK to have a.Net powered intranet. The majority of us devs used Firefox and found it easier than IE since you could even use the quick bookmarks to get to specific numbered articles/tickets. That probably was still back in the days of IE6, though.
Now I get to use a different Sharepoint site, hosted by Microsoft, and it works flawlessly in Firefox on Fedora Linux [i]except[/i] when I need to recover a password. Then the only way to access it is with Opera 9 (not 10) spoofing IE7 on Vista. Firefox, Opera 9 without spoofing and Opera 10 all give an ugly "Internal Server Error" page. Not that I suspect MS of any bad coding or anything, of course...
Ditto here, and the corporate machines are under-specced for all the extra background junk they put on them. Being forced in to IE6 would be terrible if I didn't have a development machine with Linux on it, but I think Office 2003 (or OpenOffice on our dev machines) is preferable to 2007!
Unless you find yourself holding a smoking gun or having committed some other unforgivable crime, I think the ethically best choice is to NOT turn yourself in.
Who says holding a smoking gun is indicative of an unforgiveable crime? If the Church is to be believed then just about sin is forgiveable;)
At the end of the day a three-strikes system could be good because it'd clear the pipes of all the heavy users (for now, until people find some other high-bandwidth usage), but I really don't like the "without a judge or judicial review" part.
You never know - maybe he'll be forced out of office once more for misconduct and then it'll be "three strikes and you're out - we're taking your political access away from you"!
If it is a blog, how do I read his old posts? Yeah, he's got a few boards there with older stuff on it, but what about what he said last year? Does he have a huge stash of them and (carefully) store the old ones in a shed somewhere?
The reason I don't like Fox News? I just think;) Luckily I'm in the UK so I get more balanced and less sensational news like the BBC, although Channel 5 sometimes comes close to Fox exagerations.
It left a crater 9m across and 3m deep according to the AP; 15m x 5m according to AFP; or 20m x 10m according to CNN.
Meanwhile, Fox News reported that it left a crater the size of New Mexico and that aliens with Communist symbols had been seen leaving the area wanting to "find their leader".
What'll they do? Probably the same thing as the call centres try to do if you call them with a product complaint - fob you off with stories about how it is a "one off", offer you replacements/upgrades/incentives and generally try to placate you so that you don't continue to yell about how bad a product it is. If you say "sorry, we'll replace it and give you some money back" then most people will forgive almost any issue with something they bought and go on to say how the customer service was great, ignoring the fact that the item shouldn't have been dodgy in the first place.
That was my thought exactly with that phrasing. As it is all of the web hosts who offer the impossible (i.e. limited or extremely high limits for low costs) have a "if you're impacting performance we'll kick you off" condition. Surely "impacting performance" is 'damaging' to the network and its service, therefore all use is effectively damaging it to some degree.
They're techs and they got to you in a few minutes. Once Marketing start using it pro-actively to silence...sorry, "improve customer relations with" anyone who has a complaint about their product so that their complaints don't continue then there'll be much pouncing for the sake of corporate image.
You can find useful articles on Twitter? Wow, that's quite an achievement. I've found Twitter accounts via blogs where the Twitter is just an RSS feed for the blog I came from, and I've found Twitter accounts that I thought might be interesting but weren't (like Miguel de Icaza, since I work with Mono/C#) but I've yet to actually find anything useful on there that isn't either a) available elsewhere (e.g. a proper RSS feed) or b) horribly drowned out by noise.
I've got Sky broadband (because we only need the cheapest package, which is free with the TV package) and their router has a very easily guessable password that they don't tell you (so you can't configure things). I don't know if the interface is web accessible, but we were having network issues fairly recently and they said "we couldn't check your router", which I assume means that they tried to log in remotely with the original password.
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Google spidered my comment already? Wow, that was quick! Having searched that phrase for the first time it would appear that either a) The Sun has already removed itself from Google or b) The Sun doesn't ever call itself that (and, strangely, neither has anyone else).
Exactly - and I'm surprised there isn't a "andnothingofvaluewaslost" tag on this already. Murdoch and The Sun may be pulling out of Google's search index? Not that I've ever encountered any of their pages on their search*, but surely it is a good thing if Google is tidied up a bit?
* I can't think of time I ever felt the inclination to search "ugly fake women" or "skanky townie tarts" or "sensationalised news for builders"
Never mind that, how about a spell checker? Hang on.... ;)
[voice-of-90%-of-Britons]Because it is 'free' money and I can buy stuff I wouldn't otherwise be able to afford[/voice-of-90%-of-Britons]
I agree, it seems completely stupid. The only reason I have a credit card is for the extra protection when buying online versus a debit card, and so that any expenses I incur on company business get paid to me before I pay them to the credit card company! If you can't afford it then you can't afford it, so why make yourself pay more than is necessary for non-essential items as you rack up interest charges?
Washing fruit? Pah, I just give apples a quick rub on my t-shirt and then bite it ;)
TBH it has been a long time since I last saw one with a label stuck on it, but maybe that's because I mainly get them at corporate lunches and from pre-picked bags rather than individual ones.
No, not overly new (a couple of years registered, I think), I just visit too many forums and get used to BBCode :) I keep trying to use BBCode in my Trac wiki occasionall as well.
Pah, stupid Slashdot. Sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget and drop back to BBCode.
Erm, that'd be "Insert > Reference > Footnote", which auto-numbers by default and lets you choose numbers, numerals, letters or symbols. TBH there's some bits like that and cross-references that I prefer in OpenOffice.
Must be an Ubuntu oddity for Wine, then. My Fedora 11 system gives me:
Really? I worked as a dev at a company who liked their MS technology and were one of the first (if not the first) in the UK to have a .Net powered intranet. The majority of us devs used Firefox and found it easier than IE since you could even use the quick bookmarks to get to specific numbered articles/tickets. That probably was still back in the days of IE6, though.
Now I get to use a different Sharepoint site, hosted by Microsoft, and it works flawlessly in Firefox on Fedora Linux [i]except[/i] when I need to recover a password. Then the only way to access it is with Opera 9 (not 10) spoofing IE7 on Vista. Firefox, Opera 9 without spoofing and Opera 10 all give an ugly "Internal Server Error" page. Not that I suspect MS of any bad coding or anything, of course...
Ditto here, and the corporate machines are under-specced for all the extra background junk they put on them. Being forced in to IE6 would be terrible if I didn't have a development machine with Linux on it, but I think Office 2003 (or OpenOffice on our dev machines) is preferable to 2007!
And given the twisted minds of some people even changing "mature market" for "hardcore market" wouldn't end up with the right audience!
Who says holding a smoking gun is indicative of an unforgiveable crime? If the Church is to be believed then just about sin is forgiveable ;)
Interestingly, someone has info that disagrees.
At the end of the day a three-strikes system could be good because it'd clear the pipes of all the heavy users (for now, until people find some other high-bandwidth usage), but I really don't like the "without a judge or judicial review" part.
You never know - maybe he'll be forced out of office once more for misconduct and then it'll be "three strikes and you're out - we're taking your political access away from you"!
If it is a blog, how do I read his old posts? Yeah, he's got a few boards there with older stuff on it, but what about what he said last year? Does he have a huge stash of them and (carefully) store the old ones in a shed somewhere?
The reason I don't like Fox News? I just think ;) Luckily I'm in the UK so I get more balanced and less sensational news like the BBC, although Channel 5 sometimes comes close to Fox exagerations.
As to whoever modded me "Troll" - Pah!
Meanwhile, Fox News reported that it left a crater the size of New Mexico and that aliens with Communist symbols had been seen leaving the area wanting to "find their leader".
What'll they do? Probably the same thing as the call centres try to do if you call them with a product complaint - fob you off with stories about how it is a "one off", offer you replacements/upgrades/incentives and generally try to placate you so that you don't continue to yell about how bad a product it is. If you say "sorry, we'll replace it and give you some money back" then most people will forgive almost any issue with something they bought and go on to say how the customer service was great, ignoring the fact that the item shouldn't have been dodgy in the first place.
That was my thought exactly with that phrasing. As it is all of the web hosts who offer the impossible (i.e. limited or extremely high limits for low costs) have a "if you're impacting performance we'll kick you off" condition. Surely "impacting performance" is 'damaging' to the network and its service, therefore all use is effectively damaging it to some degree.
They're techs and they got to you in a few minutes. Once Marketing start using it pro-actively to silence...sorry, "improve customer relations with" anyone who has a complaint about their product so that their complaints don't continue then there'll be much pouncing for the sake of corporate image.
He looks like he is lit up and on a stage - I wouldn't be surprised if he is a touch more awkward than normal!
You can find useful articles on Twitter? Wow, that's quite an achievement. I've found Twitter accounts via blogs where the Twitter is just an RSS feed for the blog I came from, and I've found Twitter accounts that I thought might be interesting but weren't (like Miguel de Icaza, since I work with Mono/C#) but I've yet to actually find anything useful on there that isn't either a) available elsewhere (e.g. a proper RSS feed) or b) horribly drowned out by noise.
*Paranoia mode* What, as a tool for companies to spy on you and get their sales reps to pounce when you say bad words about them?
I've got Sky broadband (because we only need the cheapest package, which is free with the TV package) and their router has a very easily guessable password that they don't tell you (so you can't configure things). I don't know if the interface is web accessible, but we were having network issues fairly recently and they said "we couldn't check your router", which I assume means that they tried to log in remotely with the original password.