i don't recall reading anything that said FireFox would import your passwords
When I installed Firefox, that's what it said it would do. There is also File>Import, which makes the same claim. And this has not worked for me (under Win98SE).
progress just leaves some people behind i guess
I was describing my experiences. Call me arrogant, but I think that you ought to be grateful to know about them. Because if I had those experiences, it's very likely others will as well. And those others will probably just leave without a word.
Very kind thanks for your level reply and the explanations about bookmarks and the spinning circle.
Yes, it did not import my passwords, even though it claimed to do so. I just tried it a second time. As before, it claimed to import them but didn't. (If it's relevant, I'm running Windows98SE.) This is a time-consuming irritation (especially because I no longer remember my passwords, though of course, there are ways of signing in using new passwords with most systems). Of much more concern is trustworthiness: if Firefox does not meet these claims that it makes, what other problems are there?
I just downloaded and installed Firefox for the first time. The experience was not pleasant. Contrary to claims, it did not import my passwords--e.g. for Slashdot or the New York Times. Contrary to claims, it did not correctly import my bookmarks--previously, bookmarks within folders were sorted alphabetically, but now they appear to be random. I also find the rapidly-spinning circle in the top right-hand corner irritating. So, after less then five minutes, I switched back to IE.
This is not flamebait--I dislike Microsoft at least as much as most people here. But Firefox did not do, for me, what it claimed it was going to do. This is my experience, and this is what happened. And it's not what should have happened.
for most of October... the map showed Bush winning by 80+ electoral votes
This is wholly untrue. During October, some days Bush was ahead a little, some days a lot, and some days Kerry was ahead. For daily maps going back to May, see http://electoral-vote.caida.org.
In the USA, many directory-assistance and billing records are processed for the phone companies by Amdocs, an Israeli-based private telecommunications company. Amdocs has contracts with the 25 biggest phone companies in America.
The power that this gives is huge. (Does some senior politician have a mistress or do private business with a drug dealer?--Amdocs has the information. Etc. And Slashdotters are surely familiar with data mining.) Many people have claimed that this power has been abused by the Israeli government--in particular, by Mossad--and such power obviously facilitates espionage. Whatever abuses have occurred, it seems insane to give this much power to a foreign agency.
Many people regard Einstein as having done greater work than Newton. So it's worth noting that a few people are now claiming that relativity is either derivable from Newtonian physics or wrong. See this site for details.
The author of the site is (or at least was) highly reputed. It was also him who first pointed out that the so-called gravitational anomaly, found by Pioneer spacecrafts, probably has a simple (Newtonian) explanation: dust in the Kuiper Belt--and this explanation has been entirely ignored by most physicists.
Some physicists seem to prefer complicated explanations over simple ones.
I agree with the parent comment. Additionally, note that Maple tends to have more reliable numerics than Mathematica. (I know little about Matlab, and so cannot compare it.) You can easily call Java from Maple and Maple from Java.
You say that you work for a large financial company. You might check with the company's research group: they likely already use one of Maple/Mathematica/Matlab; so you could potentially be best off using what they use.
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A Mul-T-Lock is supposed to be virtually unpickable.
Solar panels are also used for general electricity supplies in the Cambodia Schools project. There are currently about 250 such schools (funded by private charitable donations, with matching grants from the World Bank; computers are donated by Apple). There was a Slashdot story about these schools in January, and how they hook up to the Internet via motorbike.
Giving children an education is fundamental to long-term economic development.
You might be right about "nom de guerre". But that doesn't answer the question: does this guy really exist? So far, there has been no evidence posted to verify his identity. How do we know that the whole story isn't a hoax?
According to the guy's web page he is a "researcher in molecular biology in... the department of genetics of Harvard University". Yet his stated name, "guillermito", doesn't show up in a google search of harvard.edu. So I telephoned the Genetics department (617 432 7666) and they don't know of him.
Near-death experiences can change companies as well as people. In the early 1990s, IBM was getting close to bankruptcy. IBM lost ~$8 billion in one year, and no one knew what to do to stop the company from sinking.
In desperation, the board brought in Lou G., who had no previous experience in IT, to take the helm. Lou remade the company, in particular, making it more customer focused. Employees were so scared of the company dying, that they pretty much went along with his plans. The IBM of today really is a transformed company from the IBM prior to Lou's remake.
The official press release on Motoman is copied below. ________________________________________
MODEL FOR THE WORLD: DIGITAL DIVIDE CLOSED IN CAMBODIAN VILLAGES WHERE E-MAIL IS DELIVERED by WI-FI on a MOTORBIKE
Thirteen remote, medically deprived and impoverished Cambodian villages are being transformed into healthier, more prosperous and knowledgeable societies thanks to a mobile e-mail and limited Internet linked system which its innovators say "has closed the digital divide."
The villages in Ratanakiri, bordering Vietnam and Laos and populated by ethnic minorities have no postal system, nor access to phones, radio, TV or newspapers. Per capita income average $37 a year and they is no electricity nor piped water. But since September 1 they have had access to the Internet through an e-mail pick up and delivery service that has introduced telemedicine, e-commerce and participatory democracy to people who have had no contact with the world and even their own country up to now.
Each village had a school built in the past year through contributions from private donors (www.cambodiaschools.com ) with matching funds from the World and Asian Development Banks. Each school has solar panels that provide sufficient energy to run a donated computer some six hours a day. A computer/English teacher, trained at the Future Light Orphanage in the capital of Phnom Penh, instructs the village children in these skills which enables them to send e-mail to other children on the network in the province, or to anywhere in the world, including the school donors and their children in the U.S, U.K. and Japan.
The young teacher also acts as the village postman by reporting sick persons to the Provincial Referral Hospital by e-mail with digital photo attachments of digital photos showing a patient's symptoms, ailments or wounds. Such information can also be sent to specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical school who have joined the project to provide diagnoses and medical guidance.
One of the most dramatic benefits of the "Internet Village Motoman" project as it is coined, is its introduction of participatory democracy. Villagers for the first time are able to connect directly with the governor by sending him e-mail with grievances and requests. The governor who is a strong supporter of this project has linked his office with a mobile delivery receiving unit (Mobile Access Point) so he can receive messages from the villages and respond to them.
The system uses five donated Honda motorcycles, equipped with a small box on the back seat that receives and transmits stored e-mail through the wireless (wi-fi) system. The Hondas delivering and receiving its mail on five routes, five days a week, begin their route early in the morning by stopping at the satellite dish (hub) located at the Ezra Vogel Special Skills schools that is joined to provincial referal hospital in Banlung. As the Hondas move from village to village they pass the schools which have a similar box and antenna, where e-mail has been stored. When the motorbike passed the school the data moves wirelessly in three seconds two-ways and the school has received and sent its stored mail.
Most of the equipment for this pilot project (which is about to be expanded to two more regions of Cambodia, Preah Vihear and Siem Reap), has been donated: the satellite dish and Internet link by Thai-Com/Shin Satellite; motorcycles by Honda; solar panels and digital cameras by Sanyo, and startup costs with a grant of $18,000 by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation of Japan. But it can now be replicated in Cambodia relatively economically. The cost of a satellite dish through the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, along with a license to operate it, is $2,500 and a 24-hour 256 Kb/s Thai -Com Satellite uplink is $285 a month. Some 15-20 schools could be linked to such a hub
The system can be made sustainable by providing the motormen (or vehicle drivers) side income in delivering or picking up equipment and passengers on
You're right that it doesn't take many nutbag assholes to ruin things for everyone. A survey of Nazi party members (not the general population) in pre-war Germany found that only 5% wanted to get rid of Jews. Now consider what those few did.
So yeah, the views of the populace are interesting. So what.
Maple is open source. It's not free, though. I've always been surprised that the openness doesn't win Maple more plaudits on Slashdot.
Also, contrary to some of the comments , Maple beats out everything else--including specialized programs--in some areas, e.g. symbolic solutions of ODEs. (It's true, though, that for say group theory, specialized programs are better.)
This is a bit off topic, but.... I've got a Nokia 7250i (which has infrared and cable, but no Bluetooth). It connects fine to my laptop PC: I can use the 7250i as a modem, and be on the Internet wherever I am.
But I'd really like to replace my laptop PC with an Apple PowerBook. Nokia, however, doesn't make their software for Mac. (Seems strange--two really cool companies, whose stuff doesn't talk to each other.) Does anyone know of a way to make the 7250i work as a modem for a PowerBook?
Thank you Timothy for a very nice review, which gives a really good feel for what the book contains. (Maybe it should be held as an example to future reviewers?)
What about fans? The PowerBooks have fans, which I really dislike. One of the great things about the previous iBooks is that they ran truly truly silent! I don't know if the new G4 iBooks have fans, but I sure hope not.
The article makes the point about how Dell has profited primarily because of its logistical prowess. This is true, but there is a catch to this that doesn't seem to be often mentioned. Dell has patented many of its logistical/business processes.
This is why Dell can outperform its competitors: because competitors cannot really match its business processes. It's yet another example of how such patents harm competition. And, you already know, most of those patents are for things that would be considered obvious to a moron who is deaf, blind, and dead for decades.
Moderators, the quote given in the parent post (7079924)does not exist. Please check the changelog (linked in the story) and see for yourself. The quote is a troll, made up by the grandparent post. The parent and grandparent should be modded down.
Moderators, the parent post (7079404) is a troll. You can check this by looking at the changelog: the text quoted by the troll doesn't exist--it is just made up.
Go to www.mail.com. Sign up for an e-mail account (it's free and quick). Send mail from that account to some (other) e-mail address. The other e-mail address will then be getting lots of spam (for online casinos).
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Yes, it did not import my passwords, even though it claimed to do so. I just tried it a second time. As before, it claimed to import them but didn't. (If it's relevant, I'm running Windows98SE.) This is a time-consuming irritation (especially because I no longer remember my passwords, though of course, there are ways of signing in using new passwords with most systems). Of much more concern is trustworthiness: if Firefox does not meet these claims that it makes, what other problems are there?
This is not flamebait--I dislike Microsoft at least as much as most people here. But Firefox did not do, for me, what it claimed it was going to do. This is my experience, and this is what happened. And it's not what should have happened.
The power that this gives is huge. (Does some senior politician have a mistress or do private business with a drug dealer?--Amdocs has the information. Etc. And Slashdotters are surely familiar with data mining.) Many people have claimed that this power has been abused by the Israeli government--in particular, by Mossad--and such power obviously facilitates espionage. Whatever abuses have occurred, it seems insane to give this much power to a foreign agency.
For references and links to more information (there's lots, and it's downright scary), google for "Amdocs" and "Comverse Infosys".
The author of the site is (or at least was) highly reputed. It was also him who first pointed out that the so-called gravitational anomaly, found by Pioneer spacecrafts, probably has a simple (Newtonian) explanation: dust in the Kuiper Belt--and this explanation has been entirely ignored by most physicists.
Some physicists seem to prefer complicated explanations over simple ones.
You say that you work for a large financial company. You might check with the company's research group: they likely already use one of Maple/Mathematica/Matlab; so you could potentially be best off using what they use.
A Mul-T-Lock is supposed to be virtually unpickable.
Giving children an education is fundamental to long-term economic development.
You might be right about "nom de guerre". But that doesn't answer the question: does this guy really exist? So far, there has been no evidence posted to verify his identity. How do we know that the whole story isn't a hoax?
Could this all just be made up?
The poster is a well-known troll: look at his history. Please mod the jerk into oblivion.
In desperation, the board brought in Lou G., who had no previous experience in IT, to take the helm. Lou remade the company, in particular, making it more customer focused. Employees were so scared of the company dying, that they pretty much went along with his plans. The IBM of today really is a transformed company from the IBM prior to Lou's remake.
________________________________________
MODEL FOR THE WORLD: DIGITAL DIVIDE CLOSED IN CAMBODIAN VILLAGES WHERE E-MAIL IS DELIVERED by WI-FI on a MOTORBIKE
Thirteen remote, medically deprived and impoverished Cambodian villages are being transformed into healthier, more prosperous and knowledgeable societies thanks to a mobile e-mail and limited Internet linked system which its innovators say "has closed the digital divide."
The villages in Ratanakiri, bordering Vietnam and Laos and populated by ethnic minorities have no postal system, nor access to phones, radio, TV or newspapers. Per capita income average $37 a year and they is no electricity nor piped water. But since September 1 they have had access to the Internet through an e-mail pick up and delivery service that has introduced telemedicine, e-commerce and participatory democracy to people who have had no contact with the world and even their own country up to now.
Each village had a school built in the past year through contributions from private donors (www.cambodiaschools.com ) with matching funds from the World and Asian Development Banks. Each school has solar panels that provide sufficient energy to run a donated computer some six hours a day. A computer/English teacher, trained at the Future Light Orphanage in the capital of Phnom Penh, instructs the village children in these skills which enables them to send e-mail to other children on the network in the province, or to anywhere in the world, including the school donors and their children in the U.S, U.K. and Japan.
The young teacher also acts as the village postman by reporting sick persons to the Provincial Referral Hospital by e-mail with digital photo attachments of digital photos showing a patient's symptoms, ailments or wounds. Such information can also be sent to specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical school who have joined the project to provide diagnoses and medical guidance.
One of the most dramatic benefits of the "Internet Village Motoman" project as it is coined, is its introduction of participatory democracy. Villagers for the first time are able to connect directly with the governor by sending him e-mail with grievances and requests. The governor who is a strong supporter of this project has linked his office with a mobile delivery receiving unit (Mobile Access Point) so he can receive messages from the villages and respond to them.
The system uses five donated Honda motorcycles, equipped with a small box on the back seat that receives and transmits stored e-mail through the wireless (wi-fi) system. The Hondas delivering and receiving its mail on five routes, five days a week, begin their route early in the morning by stopping at the satellite dish (hub) located at the Ezra Vogel Special Skills schools that is joined to provincial referal hospital in Banlung. As the Hondas move from village to village they pass the schools which have a similar box and antenna, where e-mail has been stored. When the motorbike passed the school the data moves wirelessly in three seconds two-ways and the school has received and sent its stored mail.
Most of the equipment for this pilot project (which is about to be expanded to two more regions of Cambodia, Preah Vihear and Siem Reap), has been donated: the satellite dish and Internet link by Thai-Com/Shin Satellite; motorcycles by Honda; solar panels and digital cameras by Sanyo, and startup costs with a grant of $18,000 by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation of Japan. But it can now be replicated in Cambodia relatively economically. The cost of a satellite dish through the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, along with a license to operate it, is $2,500 and a 24-hour 256 Kb/s Thai -Com Satellite uplink is $285 a month. Some 15-20 schools could be linked to such a hub
The system can be made sustainable by providing the motormen (or vehicle drivers) side income in delivering or picking up equipment and passengers on
So yeah, the views of the populace are interesting. So what.
Also, contrary to some of the comments , Maple beats out everything else--including specialized programs--in some areas, e.g. symbolic solutions of ODEs. (It's true, though, that for say group theory, specialized programs are better.)
But I'd really like to replace my laptop PC with an Apple PowerBook. Nokia, however, doesn't make their software for Mac. (Seems strange--two really cool companies, whose stuff doesn't talk to each other.) Does anyone know of a way to make the 7250i work as a modem for a PowerBook?
What about fans? The PowerBooks have fans, which I really dislike. One of the great things about the previous iBooks is that they ran truly truly silent! I don't know if the new G4 iBooks have fans, but I sure hope not.
This is why Dell can outperform its competitors: because competitors cannot really match its business processes. It's yet another example of how such patents harm competition. And, you already know, most of those patents are for things that would be considered obvious to a moron who is deaf, blind, and dead for decades.
Moderators, the quote given in the parent post (7079924)does not exist. Please check the changelog (linked in the story) and see for yourself. The quote is a troll, made up by the grandparent post. The parent and grandparent should be modded down.
Moderators, the parent post (7079404) is a troll. You can check this by looking at the changelog: the text quoted by the troll doesn't exist--it is just made up.
Go to www.mail.com. Sign up for an e-mail account (it's free and quick). Send mail from that account to some (other) e-mail address. The other e-mail address will then be getting lots of spam (for online casinos).