Or you can type the name of the program and hit the enter key and open it. It's actually made things faster for me than having to point and click on some programs. Need a screenshot stored fast? Print Screen, Windows Key, "p a i n t", enter, CTRL V, CTRL S, done. All without ever touching the mouse.
Funny, my phone carrier forced me to upgrade my phone off 2.2 because they'd no longer be supporting anything below 3.0 - and this is one of the cheap carriers (Metro PCS.) My phone was over two years old and was locked into the OS, so it had to go. (It was a piece of crap anyway so I was happy to oblige. I have a sleek Samsung Galaxy Exhibit now on 4.1 and it is wonderful.)
I'm surprised ANYONE is still supporting 2.1, 2.2, or 2.3 out there.
I live in a very gerrrymandered "safe" Republican district. My town is a liberal blue dot swimming in a sea of conservatives in the rural areas. Our state districts literally slice our town in half to cut our influence in elections in half. Our federal districts have us cut off cleanly from the nearest fellow blue metro area. Our voices are silence - our representative is nothing like anyone in our city. He's also batshit insane.
More like Angelina Jolie. Pretty, successful in her own right, but has a bleeding heart and wants to adopt everyone and take care of them. She might have the fiscal resources technically, but one person can't take care of the world. And one country can't take care of the world either.
Erotica and romance novels are two completely different categories. Romance novels usually have some sort of plot or story that would function just fine without the smut. Erotica (aka plot? what plot?) would suffer as a story with the smut stripped out because it takes up the bulk of the content.
So that's why erotica is being targeted, but romances are left alone. It has nothing to do with the gender of the authors or the target audience. (Romance novels are also usually 300+ pages unless you're looking at the Harlequin book of the month types, which is why they're not shrink wrapped at the store. Those seeking smut don't have the pages to sit through 250 pages of exposition.)
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Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
That's the situation I faced when I disabled my Facebook account. Unless someone sent me a text message or alerted me to the thing happening (or I got an old fashioned snail mail invitation as happens with formal events like weddings or baby showers), I wouldn't find out about it until after it was over and got the inevitable, "Oh man, we had a great time, you should have been there!"
90% of the parties I attend have been set up by someone on Facebook. If it wasn't for Facebook, I'd miss nine out of ten parties my friends were throwing. (As opposed to the half I miss now due to conflicting obligations or not feeling like going.)
While the dire warnings in the book have some merit, we should also recognize that there are legitimate tools and uses in our social media and not discount it wholesale. (I always call Facebook the junk food of the Internet. Even junk food can have a few fortified vitamins tossed in there.)
Reporters didn't have access to classified documents in the Good Old Days either. And anyone caught leaking papers to the Soviet Union during the Cold War was in serious, serious trouble.
It's probably a lot easier to try someone under the Espionage Act today since you can deliver a large volume of information electronically and odds are there will be some electronic fingerprint on it pointing back to the leaker unless they're fully aware of all the security precautions. Fifty years ago, if you leaked the amount of data that would fit on a single CD-R to someone today, it would take up several boxes full of printed papers. ("Where are you going with that crate of papers, Ed?" "Uh....") But if you slipped a handful of papers into your briefcase a few at a time and gave them to someone at dinner, it'd be harder to trace the leak.
To be fair, most major religions are so outrageously hypocritical that they're just begging to be bashed on. I don't hate on the Christians who run the local soup kitchen, nor do I discriminate against anyone wearing a hajib as well as jeans who has stopped and asked for directions to the local Cosco. It's the ones who are preaching piety while raking in millions running a mega church or declaring a fatwa against a teenaged girl that just wants an education that deserve our scorn.
Can't we just get the Tricare people instead of the VA people?
The VA has more problems because the patients have more problems, to be fair. The medical record of an 18 year old perfectly healthy recruit will be much more slender than that of a 90 year old WWII veteran who has had heart surgery and a pacemaker, has diabetes and an amputated foot, and cataracts removed.
"All politics is local" has a caveat that there are still a handful of locally elected folks who have not (yet) been fully bought and paid for. Whether that's your Ron Paul or your Elizabeth Warren, don't discount the local elections entirely because the DNC and the RNC are wholly owned subidaries of Costco or the Koch brothers.
My town managed to elect a Green party candidate to the city council. A Green! The trick is to find candidates who are not insane. Folks who are intelligent and have good ideas. The problem is that those are exactly the kind of people who don't want to work for the government.
Medicaid/Medicare and Tricare/VA, the only government administered healthcare programs in the US, have been more or less doing okay all this time. Sure, there are some flaws in the VA when it comes to mental health coverage, but we're getting better at diagnosing and tracking PTSD.
I agreed to be a "web intern" for the local newspaper one semester. I thought I'd be helping to design layouts or code bits. No, it turned out all I did was copy news stories from Quark and paste them into HTML, and modify/crop the newsprint images for the web. It was tedious, it was boring, and all I learned was that there really REALLY needed to be a pure HTML export feature in Quark and there wasn't one. It sucked.
But hey, I got free web experience and a line on my resume, right?
Thank you. French history is not an area of expertise I will ever hope to claim... seems like they had a revolution every twenty years like clockwork in the 19th century and it turns into a giant jumbled mess.
The only reason I agreed to come into my office here daily, without complaint, is because my commute is about ten minutes and some of the users I support are in the same physical building. And I have a private office and free coffee and plenty of quiet time. Otherwise, I'd have protested a bit more.
The CEO of Lenovo did that in China. He distributed his 5 million dollar (equivalent) bonus right back to his workers, which worked out to an extra month's pay for some of them.
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Or you can type the name of the program and hit the enter key and open it. It's actually made things faster for me than having to point and click on some programs. Need a screenshot stored fast? Print Screen, Windows Key, "p a i n t", enter, CTRL V, CTRL S, done. All without ever touching the mouse.
Funny, my phone carrier forced me to upgrade my phone off 2.2 because they'd no longer be supporting anything below 3.0 - and this is one of the cheap carriers (Metro PCS.) My phone was over two years old and was locked into the OS, so it had to go. (It was a piece of crap anyway so I was happy to oblige. I have a sleek Samsung Galaxy Exhibit now on 4.1 and it is wonderful.)
I'm surprised ANYONE is still supporting 2.1, 2.2, or 2.3 out there.
Quite possibly it was being sent out from a distributed bot net and not a single user's computer.
Because the media doesn't care.
I live in a very gerrrymandered "safe" Republican district. My town is a liberal blue dot swimming in a sea of conservatives in the rural areas. Our state districts literally slice our town in half to cut our influence in elections in half. Our federal districts have us cut off cleanly from the nearest fellow blue metro area. Our voices are silence - our representative is nothing like anyone in our city. He's also batshit insane.
More like Angelina Jolie. Pretty, successful in her own right, but has a bleeding heart and wants to adopt everyone and take care of them. She might have the fiscal resources technically, but one person can't take care of the world. And one country can't take care of the world either.
Erotica and romance novels are two completely different categories. Romance novels usually have some sort of plot or story that would function just fine without the smut. Erotica (aka plot? what plot?) would suffer as a story with the smut stripped out because it takes up the bulk of the content. So that's why erotica is being targeted, but romances are left alone. It has nothing to do with the gender of the authors or the target audience. (Romance novels are also usually 300+ pages unless you're looking at the Harlequin book of the month types, which is why they're not shrink wrapped at the store. Those seeking smut don't have the pages to sit through 250 pages of exposition.) -- Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
That's the situation I faced when I disabled my Facebook account. Unless someone sent me a text message or alerted me to the thing happening (or I got an old fashioned snail mail invitation as happens with formal events like weddings or baby showers), I wouldn't find out about it until after it was over and got the inevitable, "Oh man, we had a great time, you should have been there!"
90% of the parties I attend have been set up by someone on Facebook. If it wasn't for Facebook, I'd miss nine out of ten parties my friends were throwing. (As opposed to the half I miss now due to conflicting obligations or not feeling like going.)
While the dire warnings in the book have some merit, we should also recognize that there are legitimate tools and uses in our social media and not discount it wholesale. (I always call Facebook the junk food of the Internet. Even junk food can have a few fortified vitamins tossed in there.)
Reporters didn't have access to classified documents in the Good Old Days either. And anyone caught leaking papers to the Soviet Union during the Cold War was in serious, serious trouble.
It's probably a lot easier to try someone under the Espionage Act today since you can deliver a large volume of information electronically and odds are there will be some electronic fingerprint on it pointing back to the leaker unless they're fully aware of all the security precautions. Fifty years ago, if you leaked the amount of data that would fit on a single CD-R to someone today, it would take up several boxes full of printed papers. ("Where are you going with that crate of papers, Ed?" "Uh....") But if you slipped a handful of papers into your briefcase a few at a time and gave them to someone at dinner, it'd be harder to trace the leak.
To be fair, most major religions are so outrageously hypocritical that they're just begging to be bashed on. I don't hate on the Christians who run the local soup kitchen, nor do I discriminate against anyone wearing a hajib as well as jeans who has stopped and asked for directions to the local Cosco. It's the ones who are preaching piety while raking in millions running a mega church or declaring a fatwa against a teenaged girl that just wants an education that deserve our scorn.
Well that was also 14 years ago or so. Unless that ruling was retroactive it doesn't help me now.
They had a better grasp on perspective than some Medieval and Byzantine artists thousands of years later.
Can't we just get the Tricare people instead of the VA people?
The VA has more problems because the patients have more problems, to be fair. The medical record of an 18 year old perfectly healthy recruit will be much more slender than that of a 90 year old WWII veteran who has had heart surgery and a pacemaker, has diabetes and an amputated foot, and cataracts removed.
"All politics is local" has a caveat that there are still a handful of locally elected folks who have not (yet) been fully bought and paid for. Whether that's your Ron Paul or your Elizabeth Warren, don't discount the local elections entirely because the DNC and the RNC are wholly owned subidaries of Costco or the Koch brothers.
My town managed to elect a Green party candidate to the city council. A Green! The trick is to find candidates who are not insane. Folks who are intelligent and have good ideas. The problem is that those are exactly the kind of people who don't want to work for the government.
You'd be furloughed right now, though.
Medicaid/Medicare and Tricare/VA, the only government administered healthcare programs in the US, have been more or less doing okay all this time. Sure, there are some flaws in the VA when it comes to mental health coverage, but we're getting better at diagnosing and tracking PTSD.
Still doing better than the NIH's 6 billion dollar catastrophe.
I agreed to be a "web intern" for the local newspaper one semester. I thought I'd be helping to design layouts or code bits. No, it turned out all I did was copy news stories from Quark and paste them into HTML, and modify/crop the newsprint images for the web. It was tedious, it was boring, and all I learned was that there really REALLY needed to be a pure HTML export feature in Quark and there wasn't one. It sucked.
But hey, I got free web experience and a line on my resume, right?
Thank you. French history is not an area of expertise I will ever hope to claim... seems like they had a revolution every twenty years like clockwork in the 19th century and it turns into a giant jumbled mess.
To clarify that, he was the last of the Ancien Regime before all the Republics and Empires got mixed in there.
He was the last one that counted as far as many people are concerned. He was certainly the last of the dynastic ones.
I discovered this much (which is why I'm on Slashdot.) I'd like to have more work to do but... I guess I'm too efficient at doing what I'm given.
The only reason I agreed to come into my office here daily, without complaint, is because my commute is about ten minutes and some of the users I support are in the same physical building. And I have a private office and free coffee and plenty of quiet time. Otherwise, I'd have protested a bit more.
They don't seem to have enough offices for everyone at all, let alone private offices.
The CEO of Lenovo did that in China. He distributed his 5 million dollar (equivalent) bonus right back to his workers, which worked out to an extra month's pay for some of them.