I got some brochures/ads about this new service a couple of weeks ago. It seems to be a pretty cool service, that will reduce the amount of boring (paper) mail, by sending them electronically instead. Why not, I guess this will save some (a lot) of trees when it works properly. Another nice aspect is that I will finally have all my bills and other important papers organized and easy to find. I guess regular backups are recommended, though.
The only problem I can see with this service is the very small number of (registered) senders that is available at this moment. Hopefully that will change in some time though.
Anyone know what happened to that Napster-spinoff that would eradicate spam forever an bring peace and happiness to the masses?
IIRC they would use p2p software connected to mail servers where users could report certain mails as spam. combined with some nifty AI, the p2p network would start filering out spam at the servers when enough people had marked a certain mail as spam.
Or something like that... Sounded pretty cool to me when I first heard about it.
Thank your god that you were Anonymous when you wrote "V***o" on a public website. Otherwise you'd probably have F**d lawyers filling your mailbox with serious-looking-letters.
Maybe they will demand your IP from/. though?
Wonder if they will sue the people behind the Ovlov too? Not that it has anything to do with V***o, but has that stopped them before?
No, I am afraid 34 million AOL users will get very confused when the Mozilla driven AOL doesn't behave exactly the same way as it used to, and blame it all on Moz.
Don't take it personal, I guess there are a few computer litterate users in the AOL horde, just like you.
Well, that problem is not only related to coding, but writing in general, for me. Somehow it feels so much easier and faster to write with a keyboard than with the ordinary pencil and paper. I guess it has to do with computer text being easier to modify and rearrange than the handwritten stuff. Not to talk about the looks of the finished result. My handwriting isn't that easy to read, not that it's ugly, just hard to interpret. I just have to wonder how many points that has cost me at different exams?
Uhm... get your countries straight. Afaik no one has made any (official) connection between these terrorists and Iran. I am personally pretty sick of the whole mid east getting the blame for extremists actions just because they share almost the same religion. Would you like if some people in another country with the same religion as you made some bad things, and the next moment everyone were expecting you to blow up stuff or shoot people, just because you are christian/jewish/buddhist/whatever.
Maybe they choose Canada, because they wanted the surrondings to look like the ones in the original movie. That could of course as well have been Alaska, afaik.
The point you completely miss is that criminals never intend to get caught.
Yes, the good ole "it will never happen to me anyway...".
So, even if you did cut off some felons balls and made them eat them, it would not stop the next burglar/murderer/script-kiddie. Show me one country where harsh punishments have helped diminishing crimes and... I will be very suprised.
A hacking tool that needs to be registered? Weird...
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But then again...
Maybe I think that it is more than enough to have one browser preloaded when windows boots. If that is the case it might seem even more unnecessary to me to have two browsers preloaded at startup?
Hm... If I could only get Moz preloaded and not IE. *sigh*
The page is in swedish and the link *might* not work for very long (ams.se frequently changes their links).
But if you live in Sweden and want to work for Opera (well, Hern labs), go to www.ams.se and then click Platsbanken/yrkesvis/Teknik|data/dataspecialister/ Östergötlands län/... There you will find the ad.:)
Another funny thing is that older versions of Opera by default, after installation, identified themselves as Internet explorer. You would think that it would be in their own interrest to advertise their browser in web logs..?
Can anybody say if they changed this with the new 6.02 version? I can unforunately not see it myself, since my settings were kept when I upgraded.
Should we show our compassion for how their jolts were shaken?
Feels like chrisd threw in the monitoring page just to justify it as news for nerds. If you can prove that SF bay area has the highest amount of nerds/capita in the world, then I might consider this "news for nerds".
The real trollish quote was of course: If so, that would be great...you could then get Microsoft's patented "blue screen of death" in half the time!!!:-)
Either way why would you ship an Operating system without a web browser? Sure you could ship Windows with Netscape but isn't competition a good thing?
The thing is not that Microsoft would not be allowed to bundle a browser on their Windows installation CD, they will still be able to do that even if the states proposal wins. The thing they will not be able to do, in that case, is to leave it integrated in Windows.
I wonder if a stripped down version of the Windows OS would yeild better performance with the decreased overhead of the needless features...
In some ways it will, in others it won't. It all depends on how much RAM you have. If you have lots of RAM, you would probably not notice that much of the slowdown the preloading of Internet explorer and such things causes. If you have a less powerful machine, you probably will. The real benefit would be that you won't have to waste disk space having these things installed. Your windows partition could maybe for the first time in some years be less than 1 GB?
Not that HDs are that expensive these days anyway.
The real value on the other hand is that IE, WMP, etc. might not be as much "standard components" as they are today, when not integrated into windows any longer. But still, they would probably be bundled on the installation CD and most people would probably install them anyway.
I wonder if a stripped down version of the Windows OS would yeild better performance with the decreased overhead of the needless features...
That is a trollish statement. Like Windows or not, my Win2K box has not ever gotten a BSOD and only locked up completely (forcing reboot) once in over a year.
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I got some brochures/ads about this new service a couple of weeks ago. It seems to be a pretty cool service, that will reduce the amount of boring (paper) mail, by sending them electronically instead. Why not, I guess this will save some (a lot) of trees when it works properly. Another nice aspect is that I will finally have all my bills and other important papers organized and easy to find. I guess regular backups are recommended, though.
The only problem I can see with this service is the very small number of (registered) senders that is available at this moment. Hopefully that will change in some time though.
Then I will have to wait to use it until someone develop a client for Mozilla mail. Pity. :(
Anyone know what happened to that Napster-spinoff that would eradicate spam forever an bring peace and happiness to the masses?
IIRC they would use p2p software connected to mail servers where users could report certain mails as spam. combined with some nifty AI, the p2p network would start filering out spam at the servers when enough people had marked a certain mail as spam.
Or something like that... Sounded pretty cool to me when I first heard about it.
Thank your god that you were Anonymous when you wrote "V***o" on a public website. Otherwise you'd probably have F**d lawyers filling your mailbox with serious-looking-letters.
/. though?
Maybe they will demand your IP from
Wonder if they will sue the people behind the Ovlov too? Not that it has anything to do with V***o, but has that stopped them before?
Why do you assume I am American?
No, I am afraid 34 million AOL users will get very confused when the Mozilla driven AOL doesn't behave exactly the same way as it used to, and blame it all on Moz.
Don't take it personal, I guess there are a few computer litterate users in the AOL horde, just like you.
But, do we really want 34 million AOL users propagating *for* Mozilla? :)
Well, that problem is not only related to coding, but writing in general, for me. Somehow it feels so much easier and faster to write with a keyboard than with the ordinary pencil and paper. I guess it has to do with computer text being easier to modify and rearrange than the handwritten stuff. Not to talk about the looks of the finished result. My handwriting isn't that easy to read, not that it's ugly, just hard to interpret. I just have to wonder how many points that has cost me at different exams?
No, and if you want to try it out and have access to a windows box, you can always download Pro/DESKTOP for free(!)...
Pro/DESKTOP is kindda "Pro/E lite".
Uhm... get your countries straight. Afaik no one has made any (official) connection between these terrorists and Iran. I am personally pretty sick of the whole mid east getting the blame for extremists actions just because they share almost the same religion. Would you like if some people in another country with the same religion as you made some bad things, and the next moment everyone were expecting you to blow up stuff or shoot people, just because you are christian/jewish/buddhist/whatever.
But according to IMDB, the original movie that was released in 1997, was made in Norway:
Insomnia 1997
Maybe they choose Canada, because they wanted the surrondings to look like the ones in the original movie. That could of course as well have been Alaska, afaik.
I think he tries to tell the judge that he is fascinated by the subject. At least I hope that is what he is trying to say. :)
The point you completely miss is that criminals never intend to get caught.
Yes, the good ole "it will never happen to me anyway...".
So, even if you did cut off some felons balls and made them eat them, it would not stop the next burglar/murderer/script-kiddie. Show me one country where harsh punishments have helped diminishing crimes and... I will be very suprised.
A hacking tool that needs to be registered? Weird...
But then again...
Maybe I think that it is more than enough to have one browser preloaded when windows boots. If that is the case it might seem even more unnecessary to me to have two browsers preloaded at startup?
Hm... If I could only get Moz preloaded and not IE. *sigh*
...I assume Opera patented tabbed browsing then...
Nah, some Amiga browser (IBrowse I think) had tabbed browsing before. So, I guess Opera plagiarized it from them, in turn.
No, but talking about Opera coders, I saw something today:
/ Östergötlands län/... There you will find the ad. :)
Opera software is hiring C++ programmer, Linköping, Sweden
The page is in swedish and the link *might* not work for very long (ams.se frequently changes their links).
But if you live in Sweden and want to work for Opera (well, Hern labs), go to www.ams.se and then click Platsbanken/yrkesvis/Teknik|data/dataspecialister
Another funny thing is that older versions of Opera by default, after installation, identified themselves as Internet explorer. You would think that it would be in their own interrest to advertise their browser in web logs..?
Can anybody say if they changed this with the new 6.02 version? I can unforunately not see it myself, since my settings were kept when I upgraded.
>Of course I hear Opera (and the latest Konq) have tabbed browsing also.
Yes, and Mozilla also has got mouse gestures, another thing plagarized from Opera.
Btw, anyone want to bet against MSIE 7.0 having tabbed browsing and mouse gestures?
Should we show our compassion for how their jolts were shaken?
Feels like chrisd threw in the monitoring page just to justify it as news for nerds. If you can prove that SF bay area has the highest amount of nerds/capita in the world, then I might consider this "news for nerds".
...and creates partnerships with HW vendors...
That might be easier said than done. Just look how "well" BeOS HW-bundling went.
Ooops.
:-)
A little to fast with copy/paste there.
The real trollish quote was of course: If so, that would be great...you could then get Microsoft's patented "blue screen of death" in half the time!!!
Either way why would you ship an Operating system without a web browser? Sure you could ship Windows with Netscape but isn't competition a good thing?
The thing is not that Microsoft would not be allowed to bundle a browser on their Windows installation CD, they will still be able to do that even if the states proposal wins. The thing they will not be able to do, in that case, is to leave it integrated in Windows.
I wonder if a stripped down version of the Windows OS would yeild better performance with the decreased overhead of the needless features...
In some ways it will, in others it won't. It all depends on how much RAM you have. If you have lots of RAM, you would probably not notice that much of the slowdown the preloading of Internet explorer and such things causes. If you have a less powerful machine, you probably will. The real benefit would be that you won't have to waste disk space having these things installed. Your windows partition could maybe for the first time in some years be less than 1 GB?
Not that HDs are that expensive these days anyway.
The real value on the other hand is that IE, WMP, etc. might not be as much "standard components" as they are today, when not integrated into windows any longer. But still, they would probably be bundled on the installation CD and most people would probably install them anyway.
I wonder if a stripped down version of the Windows OS would yeild better performance with the decreased overhead of the needless features...
That is a trollish statement. Like Windows or not, my Win2K box has not ever gotten a BSOD and only locked up completely (forcing reboot) once in over a year.
If you read the following quote from the article: "The subpoenas are beginning to impose a financial burden on companies"
When companies start complaining, the government usually listens.
So this is what those embedded devices are, that everybody is talking about.