Their UI designers have done a good job desiging the browser shell itself. Things are where I need them to be, and the default skin is something brand new from MS. I'm enjoying it so far (tho it won't replace FireFox as my default browser). It's a long-overdue step in the right direction.
Of course you're right, Opera's marketingspeak says you get more when you pay or use their ad version. But I really don't give a flip about the "features" that Opera includes. I should have said FireFox does everything *I* need, for free, with no ads. Beyond standards support, basic browsing, better security than IE, and a great UI... I don't need anything else. And if I did I can download new widgets.
... but after using the "windows update" utility in XP and 2000/2003 server for some time, and being a newbie to fedora (new servers in my home lab), i find the MS utilities muuuuuch easier to use than the fedora update manager. once i say no to an update, that choice stays "no"... i have to always say no to unwanted updates in fedora (even tho they're on my ignore list). am i a feeble n00b, or could the linux distros learn a thing or two from MSFT?
Thank you for contacting Best Buy about the $2.00 bill situation and newspaper article. I'm Jen with Customer Care.
We are aware of the article that you reference, and the situation that occurred at the store. Best Buy does regret the incident took place, however, we also have an obligation to contact the police when it appears counterfeit money is being used. The fact the police were concerned enough about the money to take the man into custody, and felt the need to contact the Secret Service, further validates the store's concern. While I was happy to know that the money was found to be legitimate, I am sorry to read that the situation left you with a negative feeling about our company.
Thank you for sharing your comments with Best Buy. Please don't hesitate to contact us with additional questions or concerns.
Best wishes from Best Buy, Jen and the Customer Care Team
TRACKING NUMBER: A00004061518-00014260051
my perspective is that the police totally overreacted on the clerk's groundless statement that the bills were counterfeit. best buy is defending that imbecile here. for shame!
... go to their contact us form and ask them for an official statement. i did, but then i wasn't very kind:
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2054/Two_Dollar_Man_ ja iled_in_Baltimore_County
so why exactly would i want to shop at best buy, when at best you hire incompetent employees, and at worse you enjoy taking out retribution on your customers?
i would love to see an official statement from best buy about this incident. and if you make one statement about these "post 9/11" times, i'll know you're trying to hide behind an horrific event that i lived through -- and which had nothing to do with best buy.
"Roger Schmidt, chief thermodynamics engineer at IBM, [recently] admitted that, while everyone knows servers are one day going to be water-cooled, no one wants to be first, believing that if their competitors still claim they are fine with air cooling, the guy who goes to water cooling will rapidly drop back in sales until others admit it is necessary."
you know, some times the market actually rewards innovation. tough to believe, i know, and this isn't innovation, it's common sense, but mfg's are afraid of this? come on, people, the technocenti have been doing this for their home servers for a long, long time, let's bring it into the corporate world.
i RTFA, and i picked up on something on the second page (people read past the first page! gasp!).:) the quote was from a mr. furia (no, not the one from mystery men) at AFS trinity power.
"If you've got a flywheel with your chemical battery, you can draw down the chemical battery, but when it's time to do a heavy lift, to accelerate or absorb energy, the flywheel is doing the acceleration or the absorption, not the chemical battery," said Mr. Furia, whose company is developing its own plug-in hybrid that it says will get several hundred miles per gallon.
here's some info on the designs they have coming out. i want one now!
It spreads through contact with keyboards on infected PCs
that's not all that spreads through keyboards. apparently, there's a little-known (but rampant!) problem circulating throughout the workaday world. the only ones who know the true scope of this ever-growing malaise are IT support staff. what is it? the official name pebcak, in l33tsp33k referred to as id10-t.
... i would have found it very difficult to resist the urge to take some very gratifying physical revenge on the perps. bravo to ovidius. this won't stop identity theft, but it surely promotes a bit more vigilance on the potential victims...
> huh? What does weight have to do with anything > when talking about cornering? You don't see MotoGP > riders strapping anvils to their bikes to corner > better, do you?
no, but they're not running around on 300lb bikes, either. their bikes weigh 250-300+ lbs. a bike that's a lot less than that will have it's suspension easily upset when the mass-center (which will be very high as the rider will almost always outweigh the bike by a factor of 1.5 or more)... when it's mass center moves.
what happens in a turn, on that twisty road, in that corner? you lean. and your body moves over, and the force of gravity's vector changes, it's not straight down through the bike any more. you'll see that you tip in way too quickly at speed or slowly on a bike like this. just because you weigh more than the bike.
i'm all for the power plant here, and this would make a great motard/dualie/dirt bike, but as a sportbike it would need more mass to settle in to those curves...
why would he get steamed? gillian anderson, clair danes and the rest of the cast who worked on princess mononoke didn't get steamed about its performance in the US box offices. they took the roles because they either believed in the material, loved the script, liked the medium, respected the director, or some combination thereof.
check out this interview with her, about her participation in mononoke.
"I've always been a fan of animation, period. It's always been a big part of my life."
the "loud pipes save lives" argument is a load of BS. the only thing that loud pipes do is outrage homeowners who have to deal with the sound of a moto going through their neighborhood -- and scare children on the city streets. cars are so insulated now, and cage drivers are so distracted by their radios, cell phones, and conversations that they won't hear a 120dB pipe right next to them.
the only thing that saves a motorcyclist's life is what he has inside his helmet.
i wouldn't recommend my friends or family switch over from mac or MS unless they're tech savvy... in which case i don't need to make the recommendation.:) i don't want to support my mom through an OS patch.
that said, as long as there are free distros of linux, there will always be a market for those wishing to roll our own. and with the ease of install nowadays (fedora 3 is a godsend when compared to early redhat distros, for example), people will be willing to switch...
Netscape have attempted to overcome the problem of Gecko not rendering 100% of pages correctly by adding native support for Internet Explorer.
disturbs me. so basically, netscape says, we will now validate the sloppy shortcuts and non-standard code produced by MS-favoring developers. sigh. there's nothing you can do in IE that you can't do in generic code (saving activex integration, but hey, there are ways to achieve the functionality without using proprietary technology.
i was thrilled when IE first came out. i was more thrilled when firefox first came out. i'm less than thrilled this time around.
you're tight, skul, and i agree with you. i want fair use myself. but i know a lot of folken who think nothing of modding their xboxes and paying $5 for a DVD of an unreleased game (the money goes to the pirate, not the game developer)... then burning it 10 times and handing it out to their buddies. things like this drive up the cost of games for developers, which costs me more money. it's disgusting.
personally, i would like to see a lot more "scrupulousness" (?) in the world. but there will always be a darkness in the heart of man..
the article makes some noise about iTV not being used... Although both companies have planted their flags, consumer have yet to gravitate toward interactive television. actually, iTV is popular in the UK and parts of Europe. it's definitely a channel we can't ignore, as it gets the massy populace where they dwell... right on the couches.
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Their UI designers have done a good job desiging the browser shell itself. Things are where I need them to be, and the default skin is something brand new from MS. I'm enjoying it so far (tho it won't replace FireFox as my default browser). It's a long-overdue step in the right direction.
Of course you're right, Opera's marketingspeak says you get more when you pay or use their ad version. But I really don't give a flip about the "features" that Opera includes. I should have said FireFox does everything *I* need, for free, with no ads. Beyond standards support, basic browsing, better security than IE, and a great UI ... I don't need anything else. And if I did I can download new widgets.
It's not for me. Hope you like it tho!
exactly. why pay $39 for opera, when firefox does all of that for me for free? i know opera has a free version but they say it's still ad driven.
this from a few minutes browsing their site. am i wrong, is it free now?
... but after using the "windows update" utility in XP and 2000/2003 server for some time, and being a newbie to fedora (new servers in my home lab), i find the MS utilities muuuuuch easier to use than the fedora update manager. once i say no to an update, that choice stays "no" ... i have to always say no to unwanted updates in fedora (even tho they're on my ignore list). am i a feeble n00b, or could the linux distros learn a thing or two from MSFT?
Here's the response I received from BB:
Thank you for contacting Best Buy about the $2.00 bill situation and newspaper article. I'm Jen with Customer Care.
We are aware of the article that you reference, and the situation that occurred at the store. Best Buy does regret the incident took place, however, we also have an obligation to contact the police when it appears counterfeit money is being used. The fact the police were concerned enough about the money to take the man into custody, and felt the need to contact the Secret Service, further validates the store's concern. While I was happy to know that the money was found to be legitimate, I am sorry to read that the situation left you with a negative feeling about our company.
Thank you for sharing your comments with Best Buy. Please don't hesitate to contact us with additional questions or concerns.
Best wishes from Best Buy,
Jen and the Customer Care Team
TRACKING NUMBER: A00004061518-00014260051
my perspective is that the police totally overreacted on the clerk's groundless statement that the bills were counterfeit. best buy is defending that imbecile here. for shame!
... go to their contact us form and ask them for an official statement. i did, but then i wasn't very kind:
_ ja iled_in_Baltimore_County
http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/2054/Two_Dollar_Man
so why exactly would i want to shop at best buy, when at best you hire incompetent employees, and at worse you enjoy taking out retribution on your customers?
i would love to see an official statement from best buy about this incident. and if you make one statement about these "post 9/11" times, i'll know you're trying to hide behind an horrific event that i lived through -- and which had nothing to do with best buy.
"Roger Schmidt, chief thermodynamics engineer at IBM, [recently] admitted that, while everyone knows servers are one day going to be water-cooled, no one wants to be first, believing that if their competitors still claim they are fine with air cooling, the guy who goes to water cooling will rapidly drop back in sales until others admit it is necessary."
you know, some times the market actually rewards innovation. tough to believe, i know, and this isn't innovation, it's common sense, but mfg's are afraid of this? come on, people, the technocenti have been doing this for their home servers for a long, long time, let's bring it into the corporate world.
i RTFA, and i picked up on something on the second page (people read past the first page! gasp!). :) the quote was from a mr. furia (no, not the one from mystery men) at AFS trinity power.
"If you've got a flywheel with your chemical battery, you can draw down the chemical battery, but when it's time to do a heavy lift, to accelerate or absorb energy, the flywheel is doing the acceleration or the absorption, not the chemical battery," said Mr. Furia, whose company is developing its own plug-in hybrid that it says will get several hundred miles per gallon.
here's some info on the designs they have coming out. i want one now!
It's amazing. Taco is authorizing the same posts multiple times in the same day. I'm glad I'm not paying subscription feeds for this drivel ...
It spreads through contact with keyboards on infected PCs
that's not all that spreads through keyboards. apparently, there's a little-known (but rampant!) problem circulating throughout the workaday world. the only ones who know the true scope of this ever-growing malaise are IT support staff. what is it? the official name pebcak, in l33tsp33k referred to as id10-t.
this totally supercedes festooning the bathroom walls with the phone numbers of the girls who won't date me.
... i would have found it very difficult to resist the urge to take some very gratifying physical revenge on the perps. bravo to ovidius. this won't stop identity theft, but it surely promotes a bit more vigilance on the potential victims ...
the persons who have replaced the small perl script which replaced the snooze button, have been sacked.
um, i meant "they're not running around on 100lb bikes". damn this irish whiskey ...
> huh? What does weight have to do with anything
... when it's mass center moves.
...
> when talking about cornering? You don't see MotoGP
> riders strapping anvils to their bikes to corner
> better, do you?
no, but they're not running around on 300lb bikes, either. their bikes weigh 250-300+ lbs. a bike that's a lot less than that will have it's suspension easily upset when the mass-center (which will be very high as the rider will almost always outweigh the bike by a factor of 1.5 or more)
what happens in a turn, on that twisty road, in that corner? you lean. and your body moves over, and the force of gravity's vector changes, it's not straight down through the bike any more. you'll see that you tip in way too quickly at speed or slowly on a bike like this. just because you weigh more than the bike.
i'm all for the power plant here, and this would make a great motard/dualie/dirt bike, but as a sportbike it would need more mass to settle in to those curves
oh, nothing, that day was cloudy.
why would he get steamed? gillian anderson, clair danes and the rest of the cast who worked on princess mononoke didn't get steamed about its performance in the US box offices. they took the roles because they either believed in the material, loved the script, liked the medium, respected the director, or some combination thereof.
check out this interview with her, about her participation in mononoke.
"I've always been a fan of animation, period. It's always been a big part of my life."
the "loud pipes save lives" argument is a load of BS. the only thing that loud pipes do is outrage homeowners who have to deal with the sound of a moto going through their neighborhood -- and scare children on the city streets. cars are so insulated now, and cage drivers are so distracted by their radios, cell phones, and conversations that they won't hear a 120dB pipe right next to them.
the only thing that saves a motorcyclist's life is what he has inside his helmet.
i wouldn't recommend my friends or family switch over from mac or MS unless they're tech savvy ... in which case i don't need to make the recommendation. :) i don't want to support my mom through an OS patch.
...
that said, as long as there are free distros of linux, there will always be a market for those wishing to roll our own. and with the ease of install nowadays (fedora 3 is a godsend when compared to early redhat distros, for example), people will be willing to switch
absolutely. this quote
Netscape have attempted to overcome the problem of Gecko not rendering 100% of pages correctly by adding native support for Internet Explorer.
disturbs me. so basically, netscape says, we will now validate the sloppy shortcuts and non-standard code produced by MS-favoring developers. sigh. there's nothing you can do in IE that you can't do in generic code (saving activex integration, but hey, there are ways to achieve the functionality without using proprietary technology.
i was thrilled when IE first came out. i was more thrilled when firefox first came out. i'm less than thrilled this time around.
does anyone know if oo is supporting change tracking? that's a feature i rely heavily on at work, and would be a huge boon to those corporate users ...
you're tight, skul, and i agree with you. i want fair use myself. but i know a lot of folken who think nothing of modding their xboxes and paying $5 for a DVD of an unreleased game (the money goes to the pirate, not the game developer) ... then burning it 10 times and handing it out to their buddies. things like this drive up the cost of games for developers, which costs me more money. it's disgusting.
..
personally, i would like to see a lot more "scrupulousness" (?) in the world. but there will always be a darkness in the heart of man
the article makes some noise about iTV not being used ... Although both companies have planted their flags, consumer have yet to gravitate toward interactive television. actually, iTV is popular in the UK and parts of Europe. it's definitely a channel we can't ignore, as it gets the massy populace where they dwell ... right on the couches.
-m-