Sounds a lot like the state of Indiana's anti-telemarketer bill. It would be interesting to see if the opt-out list is effective or not. There's some loopholes though... not-for-profit agencies can use volunteers to call you, etc. And it will only be effective if the state government follows through with lawsuits to people who violate the list.
Besides, most people that are karma whores, probably are already at 40-50 by now, so it's not like it matters if they get anymore. Like me, I think the Karma cap actually encourages me to think less before I post, because I am less concerned about my karma. Actually, I don't care at all anymore.
I'm curious as to how much child pornography is distributed via HTTP/websites, as opposed to other file sharing techniques, i.e. IRC, Kazaa, AnonFTP, etc.
If I were going to share illegal items, I wouldn't do it so openly as a website. You might as well sell your crack in front of the police station.
You say people should agree not to make money from the existence of an 'UnderNet' through ads and spam or fees for information, but then you previously glorify cybersquatting as an enterprise which should be legal.
Most people would be cybersquatters in the same group as spammers and others. I'm curious how all the people who agree to not make money through ads or fees are going to survive? You don't see any free print newspapers around without at least 5 pages of ads and personal ads do you?
How hard would it be to have 'preview' spell check the article for them before the post it? I would like the option for all of my comments too, since I don't guarantee to spell/type perfectly all of them either. Obviously error correction would be optional, but at least suggest corrections, or give the option to spell check before posting stories/articles/comments. I don't imagine this would be an incredibly difficult feature to add.
How sweet. Now all these papers I have to write, as well as a speech and a few cs projects don't look so bad anymore. Nope. Nevermind, they still do. Haha.
Not to sound cliche, but I love you in the platonic sense, as well.
It's too bad that the real good comments never get modded up and the real bad comments always get modded up, and so even though I browse at +3 it's still hard to find anything worth reading (not to mention that I have funny mod to -3 or something, it still doesn't seem to help).
heh, thanks for reminding me, I better return to a more civil forum for discussion, rather than this place, which is full of trolls and kiddies who repeat what they hear, and believe all they are told without ever questioning or pursuing truth on their own. =]
When properly used airbags indeed save lives. You have to sit properly in the seat, and use the seatbelt properly. An airbag is more likely to bruise you that kill you. This will give you some statistics about airbags on both sides (safety and injury/death). From that, and many other sources, it is quite obvious that airbags help more than hurt. Same thing with seatbelts. Sure, there are instances when they are likely to cause more injury or death; however, they are proven to save more lives than they take. Many, many, more. As a survivor of 4 accidents myself, I often wonder where I would be without seatbelts and/or airbags. (I should note, I was a passenger in all of the accidents, and no one was seriously injured in any of them.)
Because if I want pcAnywhere, I have to pay for that on top of paying for Windows. (Okay, so I get Windows for $5 with my school's licence, but still). Why use pcAnywhere when I get Remote Desktop for free with Windows XP?
Oh darn, a company using their resources to 'beat any program'. I really wish they wouldn't try so hard to beat other programs, they shouldn't spend their money on such things, and should put less effort into it. That way the little guy will have a chance. We'll also force Walmart to raise the prices of their groceries to the little guy can compete with them.
I don't see your complaint here. It is good that they recognize a trend in the market, then pursue that and try to find ways to capitalize on it. Any company that doesn't do that is going to be doomed. It'd be like Ford seeing GM starting to put airbags in their cars, but not doing it, because it's the popular thing and been proven to save lives. They'd be better off not to copy it and help improve the technology.
From the article: Microsoft's XP license agreement says, "Except as otherwise permitted by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."
It's hard to tell without the context of the quotation, but I would assume 'the Product' to refer to Windows XP or Remote Desktop. The emphasis also seems to be on "unless the Device has a separate license for the Product.". That seems to me to have a significant different implication than we are led to believe by the article. Does anyone have definitions for 'The Product' and 'the Device' from the terms of the license agreement?
Well, I've used both extensively, and I have to say that from my experience, remote desktop is much better than VNC. Unless you need to control your desktop from something other than XP or machine running IE6 you might have some problems. Never really ran into the issue myself, you could always carry around a disk with TSC if you needed to.
Anyway, remote desktop runs much better than VNC, and is sure a lot better than a screen capture... oh well. Besides, with VNC can you play a CD on the remote computer and listen to it at your local machine? =]
I prefer to come up with my own passwords using varied capitalization and messed up characters. One major thing I try to do is to vary the key position on the keyboard. This lends itself to faster typing of the password, and makes it more difficult for someone standing over your shoulder to figure out what you typed.
Aside from that, caried capitalization and use of special characters is the best way to do it. That and don't make any words in any language out of it.
Then you better count how much memory X is using when you are using Mozilla to make it fair. IE will run on shells other than explorer, and probably use the same amount of memory.
I just fired up IE 6 on XP, and it is using 10,648k of memory. =]
Mozilla 0.9.9 is using 16,683k on the same machine and OS. I think the decrease in memory usage has to do with removal of a lot of debugging stuff and what not, that'd be my guess. How much optimization is taking place with Mozilla, and how much time is spent on new features and bug fixes?
Yep, if you read the first definition, American should be used in the same way that Asian, European, and African are. A German is also a European, but being a European does not make him a German anymore than being an American makes someone a United States Citizen. I *believe* Fidel Castro is even an American (not sure if those islands are included in the continent or not).
Anyway, the point is "American" is amibigous. It doesn't apply solely to the United States, it applies to the entire N/S American continents. It's just that so many people use "American" and "United Statesian" synonymously that it is listed as such in the dictionary, and so many people accept it that way. I can see why, "United Statesian" just doesn't roll of the tongue. Nor does Usian. However, many people in South America refer to USian's as: estadounidense, which is basically "United Statesian".
Anyway, the point is, the US does not have sole rights to the use of the term America, American, etc., and should not treat them as such. You should always consider the fact that what you mean and how others perceive it will not always be the same, and therefore, by referring to something as American, you are making quite a broad generalization, and could very well cause many problems you did not forsee.
I surely hope that people like you aren't the ones doing excessive business with our friends in Latin America. Maybe you should consult an anthropologist on this one, eh?
and what would The Language be? English is only the 3rd most widely spoken language in the world. Chinese/Mandarin is the most at about 900 million, Spanish has about 330 million, and English has around 320 million. If you include all the different dialects of Indian languages, I'm sure they would well surpass English as well.
Besides, while English may be the United States 'official language' in practice, there really is no such thing.
The ACLU has good information about language and the United States here.
The other end of the spectrum (wanting the country to go entirely English speaking and nothing else, is available here.
The latitude and longitude you gave could correspond to 4 different locations on earth, so I'd say that's pretty amibiguous too. =]
Although, if you go with 40 N 43 E, it's approximately somewhere in the middle east. (Some people use a +- system, searching this was the first time I had seen that, I've only used N S E W, etc.)
'parler' is an infinitive, and doesn't fit in the sentence, it should be 'parle'. I just found it amusing that it had to do with translation, and had something simple like that incorrect. oh well.
Yep, I recall reading somewhere that they were hoping to be able to re-index sites within minutes after they are updated (such as news sites). They've got a lot of good people working there, so I'm sure they are constantly working on new ways to make searches better, etc.
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I'd say it is very possible. Why don't you write the thing to do it for them for that programming contest? =] They already search PDF files, and what not.
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Yeah you're right, I just went through it real quickly.
Side note: Papa John's (I think) did a similar thing a couple years ago when they claimed that you could made some great number possible of pizzas by combining their toppings. My high school's stat class quickly determined they were wrong and had made the same mistake I did here.
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Sounds a lot like the state of Indiana's anti-telemarketer bill. It would be interesting to see if the opt-out list is effective or not. There's some loopholes though... not-for-profit agencies can use volunteers to call you, etc. And it will only be effective if the state government follows through with lawsuits to people who violate the list.
Besides, most people that are karma whores, probably are already at 40-50 by now, so it's not like it matters if they get anymore. Like me, I think the Karma cap actually encourages me to think less before I post, because I am less concerned about my karma. Actually, I don't care at all anymore.
eBay has a lot of credit card numbers, etc. since they require one in order to sell stuff.
If I were going to share illegal items, I wouldn't do it so openly as a website. You might as well sell your crack in front of the police station.
Most people would be cybersquatters in the same group as spammers and others. I'm curious how all the people who agree to not make money through ads or fees are going to survive? You don't see any free print newspapers around without at least 5 pages of ads and personal ads do you?
How hard would it be to have 'preview' spell check the article for them before the post it? I would like the option for all of my comments too, since I don't guarantee to spell/type perfectly all of them either. Obviously error correction would be optional, but at least suggest corrections, or give the option to spell check before posting stories/articles/comments. I don't imagine this would be an incredibly difficult feature to add.
Not to sound cliche, but I love you in the platonic sense, as well.
It's too bad that the real good comments never get modded up and the real bad comments always get modded up, and so even though I browse at +3 it's still hard to find anything worth reading (not to mention that I have funny mod to -3 or something, it still doesn't seem to help).
heh, thanks for reminding me, I better return to a more civil forum for discussion, rather than this place, which is full of trolls and kiddies who repeat what they hear, and believe all they are told without ever questioning or pursuing truth on their own. =]
When properly used airbags indeed save lives. You have to sit properly in the seat, and use the seatbelt properly. An airbag is more likely to bruise you that kill you. This will give you some statistics about airbags on both sides (safety and injury/death). From that, and many other sources, it is quite obvious that airbags help more than hurt. Same thing with seatbelts. Sure, there are instances when they are likely to cause more injury or death; however, they are proven to save more lives than they take. Many, many, more. As a survivor of 4 accidents myself, I often wonder where I would be without seatbelts and/or airbags. (I should note, I was a passenger in all of the accidents, and no one was seriously injured in any of them.)
Because if I want pcAnywhere, I have to pay for that on top of paying for Windows. (Okay, so I get Windows for $5 with my school's licence, but still). Why use pcAnywhere when I get Remote Desktop for free with Windows XP?
I don't see your complaint here. It is good that they recognize a trend in the market, then pursue that and try to find ways to capitalize on it. Any company that doesn't do that is going to be doomed. It'd be like Ford seeing GM starting to put airbags in their cars, but not doing it, because it's the popular thing and been proven to save lives. They'd be better off not to copy it and help improve the technology.
It's hard to tell without the context of the quotation, but I would assume 'the Product' to refer to Windows XP or Remote Desktop. The emphasis also seems to be on "unless the Device has a separate license for the Product.". That seems to me to have a significant different implication than we are led to believe by the article. Does anyone have definitions for 'The Product' and 'the Device' from the terms of the license agreement?
Anyway, remote desktop runs much better than VNC, and is sure a lot better than a screen capture... oh well. Besides, with VNC can you play a CD on the remote computer and listen to it at your local machine? =]
Aside from that, caried capitalization and use of special characters is the best way to do it. That and don't make any words in any language out of it.
Then you better count how much memory X is using when you are using Mozilla to make it fair. IE will run on shells other than explorer, and probably use the same amount of memory.
Mozilla 0.9.9 is using 16,683k on the same machine and OS. I think the decrease in memory usage has to do with removal of a lot of debugging stuff and what not, that'd be my guess. How much optimization is taking place with Mozilla, and how much time is spent on new features and bug fixes?
Anyway, the point is "American" is amibigous. It doesn't apply solely to the United States, it applies to the entire N/S American continents. It's just that so many people use "American" and "United Statesian" synonymously that it is listed as such in the dictionary, and so many people accept it that way. I can see why, "United Statesian" just doesn't roll of the tongue. Nor does Usian. However, many people in South America refer to USian's as: estadounidense, which is basically "United Statesian".
Anyway, the point is, the US does not have sole rights to the use of the term America, American, etc., and should not treat them as such. You should always consider the fact that what you mean and how others perceive it will not always be the same, and therefore, by referring to something as American, you are making quite a broad generalization, and could very well cause many problems you did not forsee.
I surely hope that people like you aren't the ones doing excessive business with our friends in Latin America. Maybe you should consult an anthropologist on this one, eh?
Besides, while English may be the United States 'official language' in practice, there really is no such thing.
The ACLU has good information about language and the United States here.
The other end of the spectrum (wanting the country to go entirely English speaking and nothing else, is available here.
The latitude and longitude you gave could correspond to 4 different locations on earth, so I'd say that's pretty amibiguous too. =]
Although, if you go with 40 N 43 E, it's approximately somewhere in the middle east. (Some people use a +- system, searching this was the first time I had seen that, I've only used N S E W, etc.)
'parler' is an infinitive, and doesn't fit in the sentence, it should be 'parle'. I just found it amusing that it had to do with translation, and had something simple like that incorrect. oh well.
I refuse to accept such a level of American-centric reporting, especially when it contains such blatant grammatical errors as these. Bah!
google has boolean searchs, by default it ANDs everything, but you can exclude using -foo.
Yep, I recall reading somewhere that they were hoping to be able to re-index sites within minutes after they are updated (such as news sites). They've got a lot of good people working there, so I'm sure they are constantly working on new ways to make searches better, etc.
I'd say it is very possible. Why don't you write the thing to do it for them for that programming contest? =] They already search PDF files, and what not.
Side note: Papa John's (I think) did a similar thing a couple years ago when they claimed that you could made some great number possible of pizzas by combining their toppings. My high school's stat class quickly determined they were wrong and had made the same mistake I did here.